· Private foundation
The Steven E Burke and Gail S Burke 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST | $20,000 |
| KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY WPA DIVISION | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| THE PETTENGILL HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK (AHN) | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC | $10,000 |
| WESA | $5,000 |
| ROSELLE UMC COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN NURSERY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LUCKY FIN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SWPA | $5,000 |
| WQED MULTIMEDIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +42% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +41%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +91%
- SHSecond Harvest7× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- AHALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK (AHN) AKA HIGHMARK HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- BHBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +9%
- HCHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
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 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 create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 42 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.
42 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. 42 of the 63 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY FIN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel District Association ↗
- Who funds The Pettengill House Inc ↗
- Who funds FOX CHAPEL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT ADULT EDUCATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SCHAUMBURG PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
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 · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Charles R Burke Jr Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Adams Foundation Inc · Bozzone Family 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 Steven E Burke and Gail S 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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.