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The Clark & Shannon Buerk Family Foundation at a glance

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The Clark & Shannon Buerk 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.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$80k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$223kInternational$166kHuman Services$92kCrime & Legal$61kScience & Tech$15kFood & Nutrition$11kHousing & Shelter$7kEnvironment$1k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESCUE PINK INC$80,000
CAMFED U S A FOUNDATION$30,000
ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC$20,000
CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY$15,000
CHARITY WATER$14,000
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID INC$10,000
CURE MITO FOUNDATION$10,000
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC$10,000
WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC$10,000
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC$9,300
SANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC$6,500
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$5,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN$5,000
REMERGE OF OK COUNTY INC$2,500
CHARITY WATER$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $14k → 4%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 4%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 4 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$408k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • CM
    CURE MITO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $213k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
  • CU
    CAMFED USA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue -19%
  • AB
    ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +11%
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.

1
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network

In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…

Crime & Legal
2
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
3
Memphis Child Advocacy Center

The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.

Crime & Legal
4
Crisis Text Line Inc

By leveraging innovative technology and research, we are shaping mental health policy and systems to create a world where everyone has access to the support they need anytime, anywhere.

Health
5
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
Su Casa - Ending Domestic Violence

Su casa's mission is to empower individuals and families to live free from domestic abuse and build partnerships with communities to end domestic violence. the organization helps transform victims into survivors, helping them escape the…

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8
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
National Domestic Violence Hotline

The national domestic violence hotline provides crisis intervention, saftey planning, resources, information, and referrals to those affected by relationship abuse.

Human Services
11
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
12
Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

17 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
6/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CURE MITO FOUNDATION: $213,400 · PhilanthropyCURE MITO FOUNDATIONRESCUE PINK INC: $80,000 · InternationalRESCUE PINK INCCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $76,400 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $66,400 · OtherANY BABY CAN OF…THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $3,000 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $10,000 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES &…+2 more: $1,700 · OtherCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $51,400 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR C…WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalWILLIAMSON C…REMERGE INC: $2,500 · Crime & LegalCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $9,300 · HealthSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $6,500 · HealthCenter for Humane Technology: $15,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$213,400International$166,400Other$81,100Crime & Legal$63,900Human Services$20,000Health$15,800Science & Tech$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCURE MITO FOUNDATION: $213,400 over 3y, 33% of budgetRESCUE PINK INC: $80,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $76,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $66,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $51,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMERGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $700 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Clark & Shannon Buerk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clark & Shannon Buerk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Remerge Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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 17 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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