· Private foundation
The Burkehaven Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k96 grants · $325k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $980k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY | $200,000 |
| MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL | $110,000 |
| GREENLIGHT FUND | $100,000 |
| NEW LONDON HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| GREENLIGHT FUND | $100,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $81,500 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $75,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $75,000 |
| NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN AND SHELTER INC | $50,000 |
| THE PHOENIX | $50,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $50,000 |
| SPOONFULS | $50,000 |
| MATTHEW HOUSE | $50,000 |
| TURNING POINTS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| DIGDEEP | $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 (FY19–24, $879k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 54 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
- TNThe New London Hospital Association Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $945k · revenue +67%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE5× · 2020–2024 · $705k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND - NATIONALone grant, 2019 · $225k
- WVWILMOT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +4% · 35% of their budget
- FHFocus Humanitarian Assistance USAone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -8%
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has been creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement, and pathways to citizenship. founded in…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopewell Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
236 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. 236 of the 303 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The New London Hospital Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds NISTO INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds SUNAPEE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew House AZ Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds NORWICH FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Uncomfortable Conversation Inc ↗
- Who funds The KWEK Society ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE SCHOOLS STAFF CHILDREN'S CENTE ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CORE ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barrette Family Fund · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Burkehaven Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Brian House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey — 43% of income from government
- Havenly — 40% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.