How much did THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC reported 11 grants totaling $6,097,812 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC based?

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC is based in WI.

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC

To serve and benefit organizations committed to enhancing and improving (a) the character of, quality of, and access to education; (b) the personal, social, and intellectual development of children and youth; or (c) the educational and social quality of community life.

$6.1M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$1.7M

Largest

01What you fund

0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$16MYouth Development$6.7MArts & Culture$6.2MEnvironment$4.6MPhilanthropy$1.9MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$255kOther$20M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

trainingsymphonymusicbetter

2019

careprepare expansionworkforcesufferedenvironmentsconstructionfutures

2020

technologyinspiringcoapositivechoicesfinancialfuture

2021

coastudentsbuildcapitalchildren'smusic

2022

music

2023

ucc'slivesmusic

2024

stageskillscapitaltrainingmusiclivesinspires

2025

stageskillscapitallivesmusic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k4 grants · $520k
$250k+7 grants · $5.6M

$450,000

Median grant

States reached

$122M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$1,672,866
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY$1,204,946
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER$1,000,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$500,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE INC$500,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY$450,000
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE$250,000
FIRST STAGE CHILDREN'S THEATER$180,000
NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY$180,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$110,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$55M · 27 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$55M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+11%

Still filing today

78%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

MU
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +15%
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +6%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +93%

Funded once

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -1%
ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE
one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue +18%
MM
MILWAUKEE MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY
one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

The University School of Milwaukee

University school of milwaukee provides an exceptional pk-12 independent school education in a supportive, inclusive community built on the foundation of our common trust. by igniting a passion for learning, leadership, and service, the…

Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (the "university") is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level for men and women in the disciplines of engineering, business, mathematics,…

Education

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

Central City Cyberschool of

The mission of the school is to motivate in each child from milwaukee's central city, the love of learning, the academic, social and leadership skills necessary to engage in critical thinking, and the ability to demonstrate mastery of the…

Education

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

Milwaukee Careers Cooperative

Milwaukee careers cooperative is a non profit employment agency that provides unique employment services, such as education, placement & transportation to assist individuals to obtain and maintain employment. milwaukee careers cooperative…

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Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

—

Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Art Museum Inc

The milwaukee art museum collects and preserves art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee World Festival Inc

The mission of milwaukee world festival, inc. is to promote an understanding of different ethnic cultures, the histories and traditions of various nationalities, harmony in the community, civic pride and provide a showcase for the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Alverno College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/43

the rest of the field

11%

604/5,745

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

24/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,298,750Education$15,739,055Youth Development$6,652,500Arts & Culture$6,203,475Environment$4,581,000Philanthropy$1,935,000Human Services$1,280,000Health$255,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI60.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113665475 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Burke Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Burke Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Burke Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Burke Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph