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The Burkholder Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2024.

Human Services$167kEducation$26kHousing & Shelter$23kInternational$18kReligion$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $4k → 10%CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $3k → 12%OPEN ARMS ADOPTION: $7k → 12%SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS: $8k → 18%AMERICA WORLD ADOPTION: $3k → 6%OPEN ARMS ADOPTION: $5k → 12%CARING FOR KIDS: $1k → 13%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $2k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WY
OH
RI
CA
VA
DE
LA
AL
FL
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 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.

1
United in Love Adoptions
Human Services
2
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption Inc
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3
Open Door Adoption Agency Inc

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…

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4
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
5
All About U Adoptions Inc
Human Services
6
Adoption Advocates Inc

Adoption placements

Human Services
7
Adopt International

To assist people in adopting domestic and international children educate families about adoption and provide counseling to birth parents

Human Services
8
Adoption Avenues

Adoption of children

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9
Global Adoption Services Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Open Arms Adoption Services Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Connecting Hearts Inc

Adoption agency services

Human Services
12
American Adoptions of California Dba Family Connection Christian Adoption

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…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spirit of Faith Adoptions Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $69,500 · OtherNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONSFAMILY CREATION INC: $21,500 · OtherFAMILY CREATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $18,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $18,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INCA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION: $15,624 · OtherA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATIONHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILD SERVICES: $6,400 · OtherHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVI: $5,900 · Other+3 more: $8,700 · OtherOPEN ARMS ADOPTIONS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS ADOP…SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC: $8,325 · Human ServicesSPIRIT OF FAIT…MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $3,700 · Human ServicesMADISON ADOPTI…AMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesAMERICA WORLD …CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF TH…A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,065 · Human ServicesLove Our Community Inc: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalWeidner Ministries Inc REACH Community: $10,000 · ReligionLAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,410 · EducationHOST ORPHANS WORLDWIDE: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$164,224Human Services$32,090Housing & Shelter$18,000International$10,000Religion$10,000Education$6,410Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $69,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLove Our Community Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS ADOPTIONS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWeidner Ministries Inc REACH Community: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC: $8,325 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $3,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOST ORPHANS WORLDWIDE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS INC: $1,065 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Christ FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christ FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Burkholder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burkholder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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