· Private foundation
Bob & Felicia Burger 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.
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 $10k82 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,650 |
| MT ST MARY SEMINARY OF THE WEST ATHENAEUM OF OHIO | $20,100 |
| THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST PETER IN CHAINS | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE | $14,000 |
| MOTHERHOUSE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF | $10,000 |
| PREGNANCY CENTER WEST INC | $5,600 |
| CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOMENS CARE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST PETER IN CHAINS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $5,000 |
| ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- CRCINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +32%
- SJSaint John Institute4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +52%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SISOUTHERN INDIANA CHAPTER NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATone grant, 2021 · $750
- NFNATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF Fone grant, 2020 · $750
- RMRENEWAL MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Hope for Kabingo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 99 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 CINCINNATI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saint John Institute ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER WEST ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORTHOALLIANCE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds RUAH WOODS ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EWTN PUBLISHING INC ↗
- Who funds Friars Club Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR KABINGO INC ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Tql Foundation Inc · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Charles H Dater 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 Bob & Felicia Burger Family 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.
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