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Burchenal Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$218kInternational$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kHealth$99kHuman Services$99kFood & Nutrition$80kHousing & Shelter$52k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH$10,000
YOUTH VILLAGES INC$10,000
WATER FOR PEOPLE$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNIT$10,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $13k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $13k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $13k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEA: $15k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $13k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $13k → 6%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $12k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $13k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $12k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $12k → 6%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $12k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $12k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $12k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $12k → 6%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEA: $12k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 6%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $10k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 6%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $10k → 17%WATER FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 7%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 6%ST PAULS SCHOOL: $50k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $10k → 17%SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNIT: $13k → 17%SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNIT: $12k → 17%ST PAULS SCHOOL: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$818k · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$818k
$0

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WATER FOR PEOPLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +42%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +99%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +79%

Funded once

    How this is measured

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

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    6/6
    Grantees still filing
    6/6
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SALVATION ARMY: $98,950 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $80,450 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALAMERICAN RED CROSS: $76,450 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL INC: $70,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL INCST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $64,225 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCHYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $52,000 · OtherYOUTH VILLAGES INCST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEA: $34,725 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEAWATER FOR PEOPLE: $86,450 · InternationalWATER FOR PEOPLEMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $76,450 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $83,950 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE…SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $64,225 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATI…
    Other$476,800International$192,900Education$148,175

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $86,450 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $83,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $76,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $64,225 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
    • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
    • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
    • Who funds SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
    • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
    • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Burchenal Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burchenal Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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