· Private foundation
The Thomas C Burke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $42,000 |
| MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC | $40,000 |
| MT DE SALES ACADEMY TRUSTEES | $37,800 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $37,800 |
| DEPAUL USA INC | $35,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ST PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE ARC MACON INC | $25,000 |
| FIRST CHOICE PRIMARY CARE INC | $20,050 |
| JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC | $18,000 |
| CAMPUS CLUBS INC | $15,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA | $10,000 |
| UNITED IN PINK | $10,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES MINISTRY OF MACON INC | $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 (FY20–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- MVMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC5× · 2020–2025 · $184k · revenue +39%
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +30%
- TATHE ARC MACON INC4× · 2022–2025 · $171k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF CENTRAL GEORGIAone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Palmetto Health Council, Inc will be the model of excellence for improving the total health status of the communities it serves. All of our employees will provide comprehensive preventative, curative, and life-enhancing services in a…
To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.
To enable all people with disabilities to attain and have access to all opportunities in life.
Good vocations, in conjunction with sourceamerica (formerly nish) and the abilityone program have been working together to give a better quality of life by providing individuals with disabilities access to employment through training and…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.
Mercy health center provides physical, emotional, and spirtual care for our low-income uninsured neighbors in the athens, ga area.
Serving our neighbors in need by providing food and nurturing hope.
Simple Needs GAs mission is to meet the simple needs of children and people experiencing homelessness and others in need, while inspiring our community to do the same.
To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.
Philips tower is a christian ministry providing exceptional services to enhance the quality of life for senior adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middle Georgia Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MACON INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN PINK INC ↗
- Who funds NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHOICE PRIMARY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING MACON INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves And Fishes Ministry ↗
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: Navicent Health Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · Perkins-Ponder Foundation · The Ra Bowen Trust · Robins Financial Credit Union · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Patricia Stewart Burgess 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 Thomas C 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.