· Private foundation
The Burkholder Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,600 |
| OPEN ARMS ADOPTION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| OPEN ARMS ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS | $3,500 |
| NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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.
The mission of Open Door Adoption Agency is to preserve and enhance human life through the placement of domestic and international children into loving Christian adoptive families. The counseling and placement services of the ministry…
Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.
Adoption placements
To assist people in adopting domestic and international children educate families about adoption and provide counseling to birth parents
Adoption of children
Global adoption services, inc is a hague accredited and maryland licensed christian non-profit agency. the organization provides pre and post adoption services for international and domestic adoptions.
Our goal is to provide compassionate, legal, ethical, and professional casework and training to birth parents and prospective adoptive parents. through our interactions, we hope to facilitate placement of infants and toddlers into…
Adoption agency services
Family connections christian adoptions exists to assist the waiting children of the world into permanent, loving families. it is our belief that god's love is best expressed in the family. the work of fcca is a living expression of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spirit of Faith Adoptions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weidner Ministries Inc Reach Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds Love Our Community Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Weidner Ministries Inc REACH Community ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOST ORPHANS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS 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.
Open a dossier: Christ Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Burkholder Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- A Family for Every Child — 33% 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.