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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.2MYouth Development$1.0MInternational$924kArts & Culture$839kHuman Services$820kEducation$693kPublic Safety & Disaster$387kRecreation & Sports$312kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $635k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 NAVIGATORS$50,000
THE CARING CUPBOARD$50,000
LITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL$41,000
MANHEIM CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL$35,000
CATALYST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$35,000
WATER STREET MISSIONS$30,000
CEF OF LANCASTER COUNTY$30,000
BIBLE2SCHOOL$25,000
GO SEND GLOBAL$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HARVEST OF BLESSING: $1k → 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $110k → 8%FOSTER THE FAMILY INC: $5k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100k → 8%FOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 9%FOSTER THE FAMILY INC: $3k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $50k → 8%FOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $20k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $16k → 8%THE CARING CUPBOARD: $50k → 9%THE CARING CUPBOARD: $50k → 11%BETHANY CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 11%WATER STREET MISSION: $13k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $10k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE THRIFT STORE: $5k → 11%WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $25k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $15k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $15k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $8k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $25k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $13k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $10k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $10k → 9%HOPE SERVED: $750 → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $10k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $10k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 76 repeat orgs$959k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
73

Total granted

$8.5M
$871k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationFood & NutritionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    MEN OF IRON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $987k · revenue +177%
  • HI
    HORIZON INITIATIVE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $722k · revenue +225%
  • CR
    CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE BIC CHURCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $425k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UT
    UNIQUELY THE SAME INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • JM
    JUBILEE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Come to Him Ministries

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…

Health
2
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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3
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading

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…

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4
Grace Haven Biblical Renewal Ministries Inc

Pastoral mentoring and pastor training

Religion
5
Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc

For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.

Human Services
6
Youth With a Mission Lebanon Pa

Missions training

Religion
7
Liberty Ministries

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.

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8
Lighthouse Christian Ministries

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ministries

To share the good news of the gospel of jesus christ with unchurched young people i the central pennsylvania communities.

Youth Development
10
Christian Life Ministries

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…

Human Services
11
Face to Faith Ministry

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,…

Religion
12
Freedom That Lasts Ministries

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
54/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NAVIGATORS: $710,000 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSIndividual grant recipient: $605,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC: $420,000 · OtherNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INCLITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL: $352,750 · OtherLITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOLCEF OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $250,200 · OtherBRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL: $230,600 · OtherLIGHTSHINE MINISTRIES: $212,500 · OtherMANHEIM CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL: $200,000 · Other+111 more: $2,501,785 · Other+111 moreMEN OF IRON: $987,000 · ReligionMEN OF IRONHORIZON INITIATIVE: $721,892 · ReligionHORIZON INITIATIVEJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $125,000 · ReligionJUBILEE MINISTRIESPRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS: $95,200 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $91,500 · Religion+7 more: $178,000 · Religion+7 moreFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $296,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $63,500 · Human ServicesBRITTANY'S HOPE: $57,500 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $35,000 · Human ServicesWARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $25,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $22,500 · Human Services+10 more: $57,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE BIC CHURCH: $425,000 · Recreation & SportsKENBROOK BIBLE CAMP INC: $62,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $240,800 · Employment+1 more: $500 · EmploymentGLOBAL DISCIPLES: $235,000 · Arts & CultureBIG PICTURE SOCCER: $157,000 · InternationalTING MINISTRIES: $15,000 · International+1 more: $500 · International
Other$5,482,835Religion$2,198,592Human Services$657,000Recreation & Sports$497,000Employment$241,300Arts & Culture$235,000International$172,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEN OF IRON: $987,000 over 9y, 22% of budgetHORIZON INITIATIVE: $721,892 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE BIC CHURCH: $425,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC: $420,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetLITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL: $352,750 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $296,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $240,800 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGLOBAL DISCIPLES: $235,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWOODCREST RETREAT ASSOCIATION: $170,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetBIG PICTURE SOCCER: $157,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetPHILHAVEN: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $125,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS: $95,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $91,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE2SCHOOL: $70,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $63,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKeystone Hook & Ladder Company No 1: $63,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetKENBROOK BIBLE CAMP INC: $62,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGOODWILL FIRE COMPANY #1: $62,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetBETHEL UNION FIRE COMPANY: $61,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetBRITTANY'S HOPE: $57,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $52,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHINING LIGHT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES: $45,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND HUMAN FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetWE CARE PROGRAM: $27,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RADIANCE FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGo Send Global Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTNT YOUTH MINISTRY: $16,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSCHAEFFERSTOWN MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTING MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL: $12,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOASIS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOSTER THE FAMILY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAITHFUL GIVE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPENRYN FIRE COMPANY 1 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE THRIFT STORE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 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 KENBROOK BIBLE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNION FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗

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.

Lancaster County Comm…Eden Bridge FoundationClark Associates Char…Anabaptist FoundationShady Maple FoundationWenger Foundation IncChristian Community F…North Foundation IncThe Norman & Elizabet…Faithful Journey Foun…Triple H FoundationGary L Weaver Family …
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA51.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burkholder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burkholder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Burkholder Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Burkholder Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 157 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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