California · Private foundation
Burgdorf 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.
- $142k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Burgdorf Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $141k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $129k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $101k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $80k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $78k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $60k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heifer Project International | $201,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $78,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $45,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $41,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Coast Guard Mutual Assistance | $38,300 | 9 | 0% |
| National Legal and Policy Center | $30,050 | 9 | 0% |
| National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation Inc | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Portola Valley Schools Foundation | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $23,800 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $16,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heifer Project International | $201,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $78,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $45,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $41,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Coast Guard Mutual Assistance | $38,300 | 9 | 0% |
| National Legal and Policy Center | $30,050 | 9 | 0% |
| National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation Inc | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Portola Valley Schools Foundation | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $23,800 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $16,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Smiling Goat Ranch Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United Pegasus Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Freedom Alliance | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Pets In Need | $1,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Bok Ranch Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Belmont Library Incorporated | $800 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Half Moon Bay Library | $600 | 2 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($246k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burgdorf Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Burgdorf Family Foundation
- How much does Burgdorf Family Foundation give?
- Burgdorf Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $142,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Burgdorf Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are Burgdorf Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heifer Project International ($202k), Fisher House Foundation Inc ($79k), Judicial Watch Inc ($45k).
- Does Burgdorf Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burgdorf Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Burgdorf Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Burgdorf Family Foundation based?
- Burgdorf Family Foundation is based in CA.
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