Burgstahler Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 82-1950186. Reported 131 grants totalling $1,426,863 to 65 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Burgstahler Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | $425,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Choate Rosemary Hall | Wallingford, CT | $275,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ku Endowment | Lawrance, KS | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Presidents and Fellows of Harvard | Cambridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pomona College | Claremont, CA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trinity Episcopal School | New York, NY | $51,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Park Foundation | Washington, DC | $26,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Concerts in Motion | New York, NY | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Black Rock Forest | Cornwall, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Bio Lab | Crested Butte, CO | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The New School | New York, NY | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 92Y | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Church of Our Savior | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Living Desert | Palm Desert, CA | $9,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Open Space Institute | New York, NY | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lsa Family Health Service | New York, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Open Space Institute | Palm Desert, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | Interlochen, MI | $5,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City Parks Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbia Business School | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Founding Fish Network | Atlantic Highlands, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mccallum Theatre | Palm Desert, CA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation | Medora, ND | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Museum of Natural History | New York, NY | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cardinals Appeal | New York, NY | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Great Burn Conservation Alliance | Missoula, MT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montana Conservation Corp | Bozeman, MT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The New York Junior League | New York, NY | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society | New York, NY | $2,036 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kanas Gamma Alumni Association | Overland Park, KS | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | New York, NY | $1,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alzheimers Foundation | New York, NY | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Prairie | Bozeman, MT | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation | Washington, DC | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| America Scores New York | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church of St Thomas More | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Park Ave | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partnership for Quality Education | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Joachim's Church | Cedarhurst, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Nature Conservancy | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vco St Ignatius Martyr | Long Beach, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yellowstone 2 Yukon | Cambridge, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chi Omega Foundation | Memphis, TN | $877 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lambda Owl Foundation | Lawrence, KS | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department | Lawrance, NY | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association | New York, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Memphis, TN | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Episcopal Charities | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Multiple Scleros Society | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Self-Help for the Elderly | San Francisco, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sp Fund for Park Ave | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity School | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fund for Park Avenue | New York, NY | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Long Island Caddie Scholarship Fund | Elmsford, NY | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dolphin Project | Santa Monica, CA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation | Norwalk, CT | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rainforest Action Network | San Francisco, CA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Save Coastal Wild | Rumson, NJ | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Promise | Greencastle, IN | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Hill Neighbor | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
36 of 65 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- National Philanthropic Trust
GENERAL SUPPORT TO VARIOUS CHARITIES - Ku Endowment
TO PARTNER WITH DONORS IN PROVIDING PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO BUILD A GREATER KU - National Park Foundation
PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS - Rocky Mountain Bio Lab
PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO HISTORICAL DATA ABOUT THE LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS. - Black Rock Forest
ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. - The Living Desert
DESERT CONSERVATION THROUGH PRESERVATION, EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 69 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 37 | $264,350 | $2,500 |
| 2022 | 31 | $327,377 | $500 |
| 2023 | 32 | $391,000 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $444,136 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
30% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Burgstahler Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1160 Park Avenue 12D, New York, NY, 10128. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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