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.

The Burkholder Foundation

The Burkholder Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$361kEducation$155kHuman Services$43kHealth$22kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$18kCommunity Improvement$12kAnimals$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k30 grants · $20k
$10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$56k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PITTSBURGH CENTER ARTS AND MEDIA	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
SENECA VALLEY FDN	$12,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$1,500
BEST OF THE BATCH FDN	$1,150
COVENANT HOUSE	$1,100
JUST HARVEST EDU FUND	$1,000
WOMENS CTR AND SHELTER PGH	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$1,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$1,000
PITTSBURGH HISTORIC LANDMARKS FDN	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$1,000
GUIDE DOG FDN	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$680k · 69 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$680k

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+15%

Still filing today

67%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2023 · $125k · revenue +51%
SV
Seneca Valley Foundation
3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +55%
TS
THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS
4× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +191%

Funded once

PC
PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS & MEDIA
one grant, 2023 · $38k
PF
PITTSBURGH FILMAKERS & PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS
one grant, 2019 · $20k
TJ
THE JOHN HOPKINS HOUSE INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

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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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

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…

Environment

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

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

The historical society of western pennsylvania is an educational institution that engages and inspires a large and inclusive audience with links to the past, understanding in the present, and guidance for the future by preserving regional…

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement

Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.

04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 109 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/66

Grantees still filing

49/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$486,500Education$167,842Arts & Culture$57,450International$22,475Health$13,000Animals$10,100Food & Nutrition$9,760

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

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA37.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Burkholder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burkholder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home