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Burkwald Family Foundation Inc

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.

$500
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$146kEducation$42kHealth$14kRecreation & Sports$2kEmployment$2kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LABELLE AREA FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $150 → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$178k · 9 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
25

Total granted

$178k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
-17%

Still filing today

67%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +54%
  • WS
    WAUKESHA SOUTH BOOSTER CLUB INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +90%
  • HH
    HIRE HEROES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +284%

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS XAVIER
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +190%
  • SM
    ST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k

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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

2
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
3
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
9
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc

The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.

Health
10
Tester Construction Gives Inc

Tcgives was born in memory of kathleen k. schoemaker who lost her battle to pancreatic cancer in 2006. tcgives will raise money to promote progress in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer in honor of kathleen. every year, more…

Health
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Katherine Jacobson Foundation Corporation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 35 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GARFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH — $101,500 · OtherGARFIELD BAPTIST CHURCHCHRISTIAN FAMILY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN FAMILY FELLOWSHIP CHURCHST FRANCIS XAVIER — $13,000 · OtherST FRANCIS XAVIER+19 more — $14,950 · Other+19 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $29,314 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE …ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $6,500 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARA…WAUKESHA SOUTH BOOSTER CLUB INC — $2,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC — $1,500 · EducationROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $500 · HealthTALL PINES CONSERVANCY — $1,000 · EnvironmentKETTLE MORAINE GARDEN CLUB INC — $365 · EnvironmentThe Tracy Hanson Initiative — $750 · ReligionDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $750 · AnimalsATI FOUNDATION — $500 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $150 · Human ServicesGUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN — $250 · Philanthropy
Other$159,450Education$39,314Health$11,500Environment$1,365Religion$750Animals$750Human Services$650Philanthropy$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $29,314 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA SOUTH BOOSTER CLUB INC — $2,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTALL PINES CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tracy Hanson Initiative — $750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATI FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKETTLE MORAINE GARDEN CLUB INC — $365 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $150 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 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds WAUKESHA SOUTH BOOSTER CLUB INC
  • Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC
  • Who funds KATHERINE JACOBSON FOUNDATION CORPORATION
  • Who funds TALL PINES CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds The Tracy Hanson Initiative
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds ATI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc
  • Who funds KETTLE MORAINE GARDEN CLUB INC
  • Who funds GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Burkwald Family 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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