· Private foundation
William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of WILLIAM & BEVERLY BURKARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION NFP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH | $10,300 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| AURORA UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| SAUK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| ATF FLIGHT SCHOOL | $500 |
| EUREKA COLLEGE | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER | $500 |
| SAMARITAN PURSE - HURRICANE RELIEF | $500 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCE & PHARMACY | $500 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUNDATION | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +43%
- SHSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUND8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +204%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TLTIMBER LAKE PLAYHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PLATTEVILLE FBO LAUREN M RHODESone grant, 2017 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
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…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sublette 365. 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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 138 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 POLO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TIMBER LAKE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds DIXON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SINNISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CGH Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DIXON COUNCIL 690 ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MORRISON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: Dillon Foundation · United Way of Lee County Inc · United Way of Rock River Valley · United Way of Whiteside County · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Kunes Family Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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