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Burkhart Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192022.

Arts & Culture$24kReligion$12kPublic Benefit$11kEducation$8kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMONWEALTH CLUB$6,000
NEVADA CARES$5,000
GHIBERTI CENTER FOR CULTURE$5,000
CARES CAMPUS$5,000
Grace Cathedral$4,000
TOCCATA$3,000
EDDY HOUSE$2,513
Mariposa Academy$2,250
YERBA NUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$2,000
FOOD BANK OF NEVADA$2,000
OUR PLACE$2,000
VETERANS GUEST HOUSE$2,000
MAGIC THEATRE$2,000
BIG BROTHERS SISTERS$2,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$2,000
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EDDY HOUSE: $3k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Burkhart Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Burkhart Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$47k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+312%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TO
    THE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +20%
  • CC
    COMMONWEALTH CLUB
    4× · 2019–2022 · $11k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $6k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • MT
    MANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +353%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

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
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
2
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
3
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
4
Northern California Center for the Arts

The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.

Arts & Culture
5
Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Arts & Culture
6
Rocklin Community Theatre

Rocklin Community Theatres mission is to provide opportunities for actors directors musicians and stage technicians to learn and pass on their craft in a supportive family-friendly environment.

Arts & Culture
7
Chico Theater Company Inc

To enhance awareness of the importance of live theater in our community and to offer a variety of performing arts experiences to a diverse audience. To promote and foster the performing arts in the Northern California region by presenting…

Arts & Culture
8
New Conservatory Theatre Center

To champion innovative, high-quality productions & educational theatre experiences for youth, artists, and the queer & allied communities to effect personal & societal growth, enlightenment and change.

Arts & Culture
9
Cutting Ball Theater

The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O

Arts & Culture
10
Menlowe Ballet

Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…

Arts & Culture
11
The Aurora Theatre Company

Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…

Arts & Culture
12
Oakland Ballet Company

Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Artown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH CLUB — $11,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH CLUBTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL — $6,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALCARES CAMPUS — $5,000 · OtherCARES CAMPUSPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA — $5,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIANEVADA CARES — $5,000 · OtherNEVADA CARESGHIBERTI CENTER FOR CULTURE — $5,000 · OtherGHIBERTI CENTER FOR CULTUREBIG BROTHERS SISTERS — $4,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS SISTERSFOOD BANK OF NEVADA — $4,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF NEVADAMariposa Academy — $2,950 · OtherVeterans Guest House Inc — $2,000 · OtherOUR PLACE — $2,000 · Other+5 more — $2,900 · OtherTHE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL — $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY C…YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE …ARTOWN — $2,000 · Arts & CultureARTOWNMAGIC THEATRE INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCMANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCE — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCEEDDY HOUSE — $2,513 · Human ServicesBay Area Womens Sports Initiative — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$55,350Arts & Culture$18,500Human Services$2,513Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL — $11,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $2,513 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTOWN — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Womens Sports Initiative — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $500 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.

  • Who funds THE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL
  • Who funds EDDY HOUSE
  • Who funds Veterans Guest House Inc
  • Who funds YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds ARTOWN
  • Who funds MAGIC THEATRE INC
  • Who funds MANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCE
  • Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative
  • Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER

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.

Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Burkhart Foundation Inc 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Burkhart Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Burkhart Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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