· Private foundation
Donald and Betty Burke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUDAH CHURCH | $9,071 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,750 |
| JOHN RITCHESON MINISTRIES | $4,720 |
| JOHN YAW BOAFA MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| HAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION | $650 |
| THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FAMILY CHURCH AND TBM | $500 |
| DOVE SONG MINISTRIES | $250 |
| FLASHPOINT ARMY | $200 |
| CROSS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $110 |
| SULLINS ACADEMY | $100 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $25 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 92% of Donald and Betty Burke Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 2%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +15%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +81%
- THTHE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- HFHIGHLANDS FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- JBJOHN BATTLE HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL TRACKFIELDone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
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Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Lackey clinic's mission is to provide skilled, compassionate health care and counseling to the medically disadvantaged in a manner that honors the name of jesus christ.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 55 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 HAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE SONG MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PITTMAN CENTER COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald and Betty Burke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald and Betty Burke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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