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The Burchfield Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Burchfield Family Charitable 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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MCivil Rights$1.0MReligion$125kInternational$26kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$20kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY$250,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWARD'S FUND: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $250k → 20%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 6%INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES: $50k → 7%INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%THE GEORGETOWN DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS: $15k → 14%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $250k → 20%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (WASHINGTON PROGRAM): $20k → 15%MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 6%AIRLINE AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $700k → 14%WAKE FOREST COLLEGE FUND: $20k → 15%MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 6%ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC: $5k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $385k → 14%WAKE FOREST DEACON CLUB: $20k → 15%MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 6%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $300k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 15%MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 6%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC: $500 → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $50k → 14%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 4 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • GW
    GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M
  • LM
    LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +10%
  • MB
    MCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2022 · $125k

Funded once

  • IF
    Institute for Humane Studies
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +27%
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.

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Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
12
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $1,435,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLMCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherMCLEAN BIBLE CHURCH+9 more: $160,500 · Other+9 moreLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University: $50,000 · EducationThe George Washington Universi…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFOR…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · Food & NutritionAIRLINE AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,250 · International
Other$1,720,500Education$630,000Food & Nutrition$25,000International$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Burchfield Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burchfield Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 18 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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