About Burke Foundation
The Burke Foundation concentrates its giving on maternal, newborn and early childhood health and supports capacity-building, program expansion, and rigorous evaluation in New Jersey. They fund clinical training and public education (parenting curricula, pediatric training, Sparks videos), community-based services (doula programs, universal newborn home visiting), and applied public health research to evaluate and scale promising perinatal models. Grants are sizable and targeted to organizations positioned to deliver or evaluate systems-level improvements in maternal and child health.
Focus Areas
Perinatal home visiting and universal newborn home visiting initiatives in New JerseyDoula program expansion and community-based birth supports (e.g., Trenton doula expansion)Parenting education and pediatric workforce training (e.g., parenting center training, Sparks video series)Evaluation and implementation research of perinatal care models (e.g., CenteringPregnancy evaluation)Capacity-building through community foundations to seed maternal & child health funds
Who They Fund
pregnant and postpartum people
About Burke Foundation
The Burke Foundation Inc. stands out for sustained funding around maternal, newborn, and early childhood health in New Jersey, with a pattern of backing service delivery, workforce development, and evaluation together. Recent grants show that approach clearly: $500,000 to Mount Sinai Parenting Center supported pediatric training and the Sparks video series, while $500,000 to Children’s Home Society of New Jersey backed Trenton doula expansion. The foundation also funds systems-level work that connects individual services to broader change, including universal newborn home visiting, group prenatal care, and policy-focused maternal health initiatives. Its grantmaking is tightly linked to the first 1,000 days, especially where clinics, community organizations, and researchers can work together. That shows up in support for CenteringPregnancy implementation through Centering Healthcare Institute, evaluation work with Rutgers School of Public Health - Urban, and community-based doula programs in Trenton and Newark. The portfolio also includes child care policy and early relational health efforts, reflecting an interest in both direct family supports and the infrastructure around them. The foundation’s recent grants are generally targeted and purpose-specific, often supporting pilot work, expansion, or evaluation rather than unrestricted operating support. Across the portfolio, the recurring theme is improving outcomes for pregnant and postpartum people, newborns, and families through models that can be tested, trained, and scaled within New Jersey.
What Burke Foundation Funds
In perinatal care, The Burke Foundation Inc. backed Centering Healthcare Institute with $262,500 in 2025 for support for Centering implementation, after earlier grants for CenteringPregnancy and site growth. That same care model also appears in research support to Rutgers School of Public Health - Urban for CenteringPregnancy NJ evaluation. Community doula work is another major thread. The foundation gave $500,000 to Children’s Home Society of New Jersey for Trenton doula expansion and $220,000 to Brick Education Network-south Ward for the South Ward Healthy Beginnings doulas project. It also funded a hospital-based pilot at St Joseph’s Health Inc in Newark to test doula integration in maternity care. For early family support, the foundation awarded $298,000 to Trenton Health Team for Family Connects Mercer County implementation and $400,000 to Community Foundation of NJ for universal newborn home visiting. Pediatric and parenting supports also appear through Mount Sinai Parenting Center for pediatric training and the Sparks video series.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.3M
Total Assets
$122.2M
Total Revenue
$5M
Total Expenses
$6.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $33K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$33K
Geographic Reach
Regional24 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Burke Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Burke Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 294 | $11.1M | 99.3% |
| 2 | Sweden | 2 |
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