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The Burke 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k92 grants · $279k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $888k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $1,250,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $500,000 |
| POWER | $350,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER | $250,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $125,000 |
| ALLEGHENY RIVERTRAIL PARK | $125,000 |
| RIVERLIFE | $125,000 |
| COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $125,000 |
| STEEL CITY SQUASH INC | $75,000 |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | $62,500 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +41%
- ARAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69% · 43% of their budget
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +174%
Funded once
- TLTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +7%
- BCBraddock Carnegie Library Assocone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +1%
- MMMOONSHOT MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $175k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gray Paws Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
141 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 141 of the 185 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Primary Care Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25 ↗
- Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE ↗
- Who funds Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Turner Syndrome Society of the U S ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Burke Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Charles R Burke Jr Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Burke Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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