· Private foundation
Mike and Susan Burkhart 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 $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $50,000 |
| CHURCHCRAFT INC | $35,000 |
| ON THE ROCK MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| OKLAHOMA WESLYEAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WORLD BASEBALL OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| SOWERS OF THE HARVEST | $10,000 |
| HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CIRCLE OF CARE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION HOPE PRISON MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| THE LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| EAST WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| IMPACT LATIN AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +106%
- OTON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +2%
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- LOLAUNCH OUTREACHone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Evangelistic preaching the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionary and support of missionaries at home and abroad. Praying and counseling with Gods people both at home and in the field. Benevolence to needy.
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Torch of Christ Ministries provides evangelism, education, and missional support through the dissemination of information with the primary intent of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all.
Provides a ministry of prayer evangelism discipleship & faith-based counseling to individuals who are incarcerated in the texas state prison system. in 2022 the ministry estimated outreach to approximately 300 individuals.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The heart of texas foundation college of ministry takes the gospel of jesus christ into the darkest of places in the texas prison system through our bachelor degree program, which educates men and women with long-term prison sentences.…
The purpose of off the wall ministry, inc is to make disciples of jesus christ, and to encourage followers of jesus christ to live a biblical community worldview. off the wall ministry, inc's mission includes developing, facilitating, and…
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Dream Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sowers of the Harvest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds ON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHURCHCRAFT INC DBA CHURCHCRAFT CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds SOWERS OF THE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BASEBALL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MOXIE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESTORE HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Latin America ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE PRISON MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALCONY WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of the Ozarks Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH OUTREACH ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mike and Susan Burkhart 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
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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