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Burch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$510k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$3.4MInternational$842kSocial Science$305kHealth$302kPublic Benefit$50kAnimals$25kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+2 grants · $970k
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DonorsChooseOrg$509,748
Project Victory Ukraine$460,000
Washington University$55,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
St Margarets Episcopal School$25,000
Davidson College$10,000
Kukio Ho'omana Fund$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $840k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project Victory Ukraine: $460k → 10%Project Victory Ukraine: $275k → 10%Project Victory Ukraine: $100k → 10%Musical Theater Academy of Orange C: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
MN
IL
NY
IA
PA
CA
MO
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 13 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$5.1M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+22%

Still filing today

46%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +1%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +76%
  • TL
    THE LEGACY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue ×22

Funded once

  • FO
    FDN of Angelman Syndrome
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NL
    Northern Light Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coras Angels. 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

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONORSCHOOSEORG — $3,066,415 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGCORAS ANGELS — $248,000 · EducationCORAS ANGELSWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $138,500 · Education+6 more — $115,000 · EducationPROJECT VICTORY UKRAINE — $834,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT VICTORY UK…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesUC Berkeley-Burch Center for Tax Po — $300,000 · OtherUC Berkeley-Burc…Individual grant recipient — $205,000 · OtherIndividual grant…ST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherST MARGARETS EPI…Sage Hill High School — $57,500 · OtherSage Hill High S…FDN of Angelman Syndrome — $50,000 · OtherFDN of Angelman …THE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $35,000 · Other+9 more — $52,492 · Other+9 moreMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 · AnimalsKUKIO HOOMANA FUND — $10,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · PhilanthropyCHRIST FOR ALL CITIES USA INC — $7,500 · ReligionAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 · Social Science
Education$3,567,915Human Services$839,500Other$769,992Animals$25,000Philanthropy$24,500Religion$7,500Social Science$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $3,066,415 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT VICTORY UKRAINE — $834,500 over 3y, 75% of budgetCORAS ANGELS — $248,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $138,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light School — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDavidson College — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST FOR ALL CITIES USA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Burch 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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