· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SMILING GOAT RANCH | $10,000 |
| PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burgdorf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burgdorf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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