· Private foundation
The Burke Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $101,513 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $25,755 |
| DESERT ICE SKATING CLUB OF ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA FIGURE SKATING CLUB | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM8× · 2018–2026 · $752k · revenue +84%
- PCPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $592k · revenue +53%
- CACOYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2023 · $401k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CACOYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION CHANDLERone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
- CCCAHA - CENTER ICE FUNDone grant, 2025 · $25k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -25%
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Education and Research
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
The american collegiate hockey association is the national governing body for the sport of ice hockey at the collegiate level throughout the united states. the overall objective is to maintain the highest possible standards for the sport…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DESERT ICE SKATING CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION CHANDLER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAYLA JULIEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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.
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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