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The Burke Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$214k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
41%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,050
Largest grant, FY2025
$44,150
Organizations funded a year
9 to 29
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Burke Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyScience & TechPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$209k26%
FY202429$157k41%
FY202320$155k20%
FY202217$144k18%
FY202119$147k37%
FY20209$96k33%
FY201911$392k9%
FY201821$354k57%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$825kScience & Tech$426kYouth Development$287kHealth$99kEnvironment$63kPhilanthropy$14kReligion$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MD

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$535,85690%
Seton Hall Preparatory School$320,0408n/a
All Stars Project Inc$286,95090%
Seton Hall University$147,50020%
American Museum of Natural History$128,50030%
Literacy Inc$93,50090%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$31,20030%
'Sconset Trust Inc$30,42550%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$17,62570%
Our House Inc$13,01130%
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Burke Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $535,856 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAll Stars Project Inc: $286,950 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSeton Hall University: $147,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $128,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Inc: $93,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $31,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budget'Sconset Trust Inc: $30,425 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOur House Inc: $13,011 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greenwich Inc: $12,570 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOur House Foundation Inc: $9,618 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYear Up Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $2,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Alliance Hopes and Dreams Foundation for Children Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMonmouth County Historical Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Shellfish Association Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Lighthouse School Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManasquan River Golf Foundation: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarvard Club of New York City: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Reports Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard Magazine Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bike Works: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShrewsbury First Aid Squad: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Hartman Family Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Burke Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Burke Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Burke Family Foundation

How much does The Burke Family Foundation give?
The Burke Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $213,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Burke Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (27%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are The Burke Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Roundabout Theatre Company Inc ($536k), Seton Hall Preparatory School ($320k), All Stars Project Inc ($287k).
Does The Burke Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Burke Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Burke Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, The Hartman Family Foundation.
Where is The Burke Family Foundation based?
The Burke Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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