· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROJECT | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SMILING GOAT RANCH | $10,000 |
| PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $7,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $3,750 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER | $3,750 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +37%- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +32%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- PIPets In Needgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +111%
- GSGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
- CHChildren's hunger projectone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is United Pegasus Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMILING GOAT RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Pets In Need ↗
- Who funds BOK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY ↗
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: 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
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 Burgdorf 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.