· Private foundation
The Burch Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of The Burch Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Burch Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k18 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT | $1,470,000 |
| fund for nyc public schools | $450,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| community studies | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| EAST harlem school | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| ST JAMES CHURCH | $15,500 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT7× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +37%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $302k · revenue +58%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- NDNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-HARVEST COLLEGIATEone grant, 2017 · $400k
- DCDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -100%
- EHEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +36%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds EL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds The Morningside Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: J & Ar Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · The Thomas J Edelman Foundation · Mary Jane Hipp Brock Family Foundation · Apas Foundation · The Jct Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · William & Martha Ford Fund · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Burch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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