· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL STARS PROJECT | $44,150 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CORP | $32,190 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY | $24,000 |
| SETON HALL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CORP | $13,690 |
| GHYC FOUNDATION | $12,400 |
| GHYC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCONSET TRUST | $10,000 |
| SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $8,700 |
| WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LITERACY INC | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $4,339 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY | $3,216 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 40% of The Burke Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 39%.
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 +7% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASALL STARS PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +58%
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +42%
- LILITERACY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- DRDANIEL RAYMOND WONG NEUROLOGY RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $8k
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +8%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 67 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Burke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Our House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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