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Walton E and Mary T Burdick Family Foundation at a glance

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Walton E and Mary T Burdick Family 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.

$62k
Granted FY2020
35
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$33kArts & Culture$10kReligion$6kEnvironment$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k34 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christopher Gegwich Memorial Foundation$10,000
Greenwich Academy$6,000
Walnut Hill School$5,000
Pennsylvania State University$5,000
Police Unity Tour of Florida$3,000
The Wake Forest Fund$3,000
Rippowam Cisqua School$3,000
St John & Mary Church-Cardinal's Annual Steward Appeal Archdiocese of NY$3,000
Lehigh University$2,175
Taconic Opera$2,000
Shippensburg University Foundation$2,000
Suffield Academy$1,700
Catholic Faith Appeal Diocese of Venice in Florida$1,500
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra$1,500
St John & St Mary Church$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Nantucket Land Council: $1k → 6%Walnut Hill School: $5k → 8%Shippensburg University Foundation: $2k → 8%Lehigh University: $2k → 11%Bucknell University: $1k → 11%Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra: $2k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $5k → 16%Putnam Arts Council: $500 → 6%Christopher Gegwich Memorial Foundation: $10k → 7%Taconic Opera: $2k → 9%Police Unity Tour of Florida: $3k → 10%Greenwich Academy: $6k → 9%Suffield Academy: $2k → 11%The Wake Forest Fund: $3k → 15%St Georges School: $500 → 7%Hounds in Pounds: $1k → 12%Frenchman Bay Conservancy: $500 → 11%Nantucket Conservation Foundation: $1k → 6%Cocoa Packs Inc: $1k → 12%Feeding Westchester: $500 → 9%Brunswick School: $500 → 9%Trinity University: $700 → 11%Nantucket Cottage Hospital: $500 → 6%Christian Church United: $200 → 12%Katonah Museum of Art Inc: $100 → 9%Historic Hudston Valley: $250 → 9%National Trust for Historic Preservation - Lyndhurst Castle: $100 → 9%St John & Mary Church-Cardinal's Annual Steward Appeal Archdiocese of NY: $3k → 9%Rippowam Cisqua School: $3k → 9%Yorktown Ambulance: $250 → 9%St John & St Mary Church: $1k → 9%Northern Westchester Hospital Association: $1k → 9%Teatown Lake Reservation Inc: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
NC
FL
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 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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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9
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
10
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christopher G Gegwich Mem Found Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
24/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $6,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 · EducationWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $3,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School IncPOLICE UNITY TOUR OF FLORIDA INC: $3,000 · EducationPOLICE UNITY TOUR OF FLORIDA INCLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $2,175 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $1,700 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMYBucknell University: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYThe Wake Forest Fund: $3,000 · OtherThe Wake Forest FundSt John & Mary Church-Cardinal's Annual Steward Appeal Archdiocese of NY: $3,000 · OtherSt John & Mary Church-Cardinal's A…Catholic Faith Appeal Diocese of Venice in Florida: $1,500 · OtherCatholic Faith Appeal Diocese of V…NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $1,000 · OtherSt John & St Mary Church: $1,000 · OtherTrinity University: $700 · OtherNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · OtherTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,550 · Other+5 moreCHRISTOPHER G GEGWICH MEM FOUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTOPHER G GEGW…TACONIC OPERA: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL: $500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $500 · EnvironmentCOCOA PACKS INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionHOUNDS IN POUNDS INC: $1,000 · Animals
Education$24,875Other$18,750Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$4,350Environment$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,000Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE UNITY TOUR OF FLORIDA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $2,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCOA PACKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUNDS IN POUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Ibm International FoundationNY18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Walton E and Mary T Burdick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walton E and Mary T Burdick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $93k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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