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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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.3MEducation$2.8MHealth$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.5MHuman Services$607kYouth Development$378kReligion$221kEnvironment$171kOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k92 grants · $279k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $888k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALLEGHENY RIVERTRAIL PARK$125,000
COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $13k → 11%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $13k → 21%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $125 → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $3k → 11%RIVERVIEW CHILDREN'S CENTER: $16k → 11%RIVERVIEW CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%RIVERVIEW CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $125k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $18k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $13k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $13k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $13k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $5k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $3k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $3k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $425 → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $350 → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%FAMILY RESOURCES: $5k → 11%FAMILY RESOURCES: $5k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 102 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
63

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +41%
  • AR
    Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69% · 43% of their budget
  • PC
    PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +7%
  • BC
    Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +1%
  • MM
    MOONSHOT MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Point Park University

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…

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2
University of Pittsburgh

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…

Education
3
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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4
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
5
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
7
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
8
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

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…

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9
Sustainable Pittsburgh

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.

Environment
10
Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association

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…

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11
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
12
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

141 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. 141 of the 185 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/141
Grantees still filing
92/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $1,475,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $1,150,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY: $687,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANYQUANTUM THEATRE INC: $667,500 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE INCHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $562,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIACLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25: $285,500 · Arts & CultureCLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $266,300 · Arts & CulturePOWER: $367,500 · OtherPOWERWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $329,250 · OtherWINCHESTER THURSTON SC…COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $287,500 · OtherCOOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNIT…MOONSHOT MUSEUM: $175,000 · OtherMOONSHOT MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $162,500 · OtherIndividual grant recip…FOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $137,500 · OtherRIVERLIFE: $125,500 · OtherHOSANNA HOUSE INC: $140,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · Other+91 more: $955,297 · Other+91 moreTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $500,000 · EducationTHE LINSLY SCHO…THE ELLIS SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationTHE ELLIS SCHOO…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $434,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOO…STEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $200,125 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUA…IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $87,750 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · Education+16 more: $119,951 · Education+16 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $580,051 · HealthCHILDREN'S HO…Primary Care Health Services Inc: $500,000 · HealthPrimary Care …PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY: $301,500 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $135,377 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · Health+11 more: $7,055 · HealthAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $1,195,675 · Recreation & SportsAspinwall …PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsPITTSBURGH…+3 more: $31,059 · Recreation & SportsSecond Harvest: $191,375 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $162,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20,500 · Human ServicesRIVERVIEW CHILDRENS CENTER: $19,500 · Human ServicesALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $17,500 · Human Services+9 more: $73,718 · Human ServicesTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $193,500 · PhilanthropyHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $62,500 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $11,050 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$5,343,800Other$2,780,047Education$1,916,826Health$1,598,983Recreation & Sports$1,316,734Human Services$485,093Philanthropy$279,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $1,475,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $1,195,675 over 4y, 43% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY: $687,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC: $667,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $580,051 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $562,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ELLIS SCHOOL: $500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $434,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $329,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY: $301,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25: $285,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $250,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $200,125 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $193,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSecond Harvest: $191,375 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $162,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $135,377 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $125,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL OPERA HOUSE: $125,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA: $90,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $87,750 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE: $67,650 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $62,500 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $50,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTurner Syndrome Society of the U S: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $45,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC: $30,134 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSVOICE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERVIEW CHILDRENS CENTER: $19,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $17,900 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $17,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $16,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Burke Family Foun…Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsThe United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…Charles R Burke Jr Fo…Allegheny FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…
The Burke Family FoundationPA224.8× affinity106 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Burke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Burke Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Burke 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.

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 185 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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