· Private foundation
The Edmund A & Marguerite LA Burke Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC | $36,786 |
| THE BLIND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $36,786 |
| CA METABOLIC RESEARCH FNDN | $36,786 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL-OFFICE OF PHILA | $36,786 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS-SGV CHAPTER | $36,785 |
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 (FY17–22, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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
- VEVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +32%
- KAKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM3× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
- PSPASADENA SENIOR CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +68%
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.
The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.
Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…
We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…
The center is a non-profit organization providing quality early education and care for infants, toddlers and preschool age children for the caltech and pasadena communities. caring, nurturing educators staff this outstanding program. the…
The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Provide video production training to the community of pasadena and civic meeting and event coverage. programs produced through the pasadena media studio cablecast on cable channels in the pasadena viewing area.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
To provide quality educational and physical development programs for pre-kindergarten
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Grace Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
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 Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · The Fitzberg Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Patron Saints Foundation · Gail G Ellis 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 organization The Edmund A & Marguerite LA Burke 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.
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.
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