The Burke Foundation Inc
EIN 39-1828760 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 8 grants · $1.3m
Who it funds most
21 of its 34 grantees were funded in more than one year.
The Burke Foundation Inc's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 34 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2024, filing 202521069349300842
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Form 990 | $112.8m | — | $7.4m |
| 2023 | Form 990 | $108.2m | — | $5.1m |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202610829349301506 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202521069349300842 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202431769349301068 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202301889349300115 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202201169349301820 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202111039349301206 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 201930929349300733 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
The Burke Foundation Inc made 109 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $42.6m as filed.
- Grants
- 109
- Total, as filed
- $42.6m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | 7 | $9.6m |
| MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY | 7 | $8.5m |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | 7 | $3.8m |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY | 6 | $3.3m |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER | 3 | $2.1m |
| FIRST STAGE CHILDREN'S THEATER | 7 | $1.6m |
| MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | 3 | $1.4m |
| NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY | 6 | $1.4m |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | 3 | $1.3m |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | 5 | $1.1m |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE | 5 | $989.4k |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 6 | $870.0k |
| ALVERNO COLLEGE | 4 | $718.1k |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE CO | 1 | $700.0k |
| ST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL INC | 3 | $675.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 14 | $6.0m |
| 2020 | 29 | $8.7m |
| 2021 | 19 | $6.4m |
| 2022 | 12 | $4.0m |
| 2023 | 10 | $4.5m |
| 2024 | 14 | $6.9m |
| 2025 | 11 | $6.1m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-391828760. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified