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Burkholder 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 $10k19 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY | $140,000 |
| MEN OF IRON | $120,000 |
| HORIZON INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| BIG PICTURE SOCCER | $65,000 |
| LIGHTSHINE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL | $50,000 |
| THE CARING CUPBOARD | $50,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $50,000 |
| LITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL | $41,000 |
| MANHEIM CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| CATALYST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| CEF OF LANCASTER COUNTY | $30,000 |
| WATER STREET MISSIONS | $30,000 |
| BIBLE2SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GO SEND GLOBAL | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- MOMEN OF IRON9× · 2017–2025 · $987k · revenue +177%
- HIHORIZON INITIATIVE9× · 2017–2025 · $722k · revenue +225%
- CRCHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE BIC CHURCH7× · 2018–2024 · $425k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- UTUNIQUELY THE SAME INCone grant, 2022 · $150k
- JMJUBILEE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $80k
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.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Biblical counseling
The organization offers food, clothing and shelter to the unhomed of berks county. services offered include education and work development, providing spiritual transformation through discipleship, church attendence, bibel study and prayer…
Pastoral mentoring and pastor training
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Missions training
The ministry exists to serve offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community by showing god's love, providing practical assistance, and supporting biblical standards of justice.
Lighthouse christian ministries (lcm) is a christ centered ministry dedicated to reaching people with the gospel of jesus christ through spiritual means of prayer, bible study, and church services. lcm will also help the poor and needy…
To share the good news of the gospel of jesus christ with unchurched young people i the central pennsylvania communities.
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Now I Can Foundation Northeast. 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 157 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 MEN OF IRON ↗
- Who funds HORIZON INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE BIC CHURCH ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DISCIPLES ↗
- Who funds WOODCREST RETREAT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE SOCCER ↗
- Who funds PHILHAVEN ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CARING CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BIBLE2SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Keystone Hook & Ladder Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗
- Who funds KENBROOK BIBLE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNION FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Wenger Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · North Foundation Inc · The Norman & Elizabeth Hahn Family Foundation · Faithful Journey Foundation · Triple H Foundation · Gary L Weaver Family 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 Burkholder 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.
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