· Private foundation
The Burkholder 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CENTER ARTS AND MEDIA | $12,500 |
| PITTSBURGH CENTER ARTS AND MEDIA | $12,500 |
| PITTSBURGH CENTER ARTS AND MEDIA | $12,500 |
| PITTSBURGH CENTER ARTS AND MEDIA | $12,500 |
| SENECA VALLEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROTHERS BROTHER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JUST HARVEST ED FUND | $1,000 |
| HIDDEN VALLEY MUSIC SEMINAR | $1,000 |
| GREATER PGH COMMUNITY FOOD | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| JUST HARVEST ED FUND | $1,000 |
| PITTSBURGH HISTORY AND LANDMARKS | $500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 9 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $125k · revenue +51%- SVSeneca Valley Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +55%
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS4× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- PCPITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS & MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $38k
- PFPITTSBURGH FILMAKERS & PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TJTHE JOHN HOPKINS HOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is The National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Foundation. 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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 98 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Seneca Valley Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds Hidden Valley Music Seminars ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds The National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN HOPKINS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds UNION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OMA Center for Mind Body and Spirit Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FAYETTE COUNTY PA ↗
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 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
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 Burkholder 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% 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.