Arkansas · Nonprofit
BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION
BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,199 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $941k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $804k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Brandon Burlsworth Foundation does
Mission
To support the physical and spiritual needs of children with limited opportunities. The foundation encourages developing positive values, strong faith lives, and a pattern that would exemplify the belief that every child is a gift.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Eyes of a champion - in cooperation with wal-mart and sam's club optical, and independent optometrists, we provide eye exams and eye glasses to over 1000 children in arkansas, indiana, texas, and louisiana.
$261,383 spent56% of program spendingFootball camp - former razorback football players put on a mini-camp for roughly 500 children.
$87,937 spent19% of program spendingBurlsworth character awards - over 16,000 high school football coaches around the nation have the opportunity to recognize a deserving senior football player who exhibits character above all else.
$40,647 spent9% of program spendingBurls kids - we take over 500 underprivileged children to arkansas razorback and indianapolis colts football games.
$79,501 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $469,468.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
114% of BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Marty Burlsworth
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $36k → $122k.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 42% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION?
- BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,199 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $804,199 in grants to BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing