Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Burkholder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Burkholder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $102k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $96k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $92k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $99k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $97k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $117k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $102k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $58k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $125,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Seneca Valley Foundation | $32,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Society for Art in Crafts | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hidden Valley Music Seminars | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $9,760 | 7 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $8,900 | 4 | 0% |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Baltimore Clayworks Inc | $7,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $7,050 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($433k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Burkholder Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Fine Foundation
How this is measured
About The Burkholder Foundation
- How much does The Burkholder Foundation give?
- The Burkholder Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $102,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Burkholder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Education (23%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Burkholder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($125k), Seneca Valley Foundation ($32k), The Society for Art in Crafts ($15k).
- Does The Burkholder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Burkholder Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Burkholder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Grable Foundation.
- Where is The Burkholder Foundation based?
- The Burkholder Foundation is based in PA.
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