Texas · Nonprofit
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,266 to it, the largest being Arthroscopy Association of North America ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $214k
What Burkhart Research Institute for Orthopaedics does
Mission
Burkhart Research Institute for Orthopaedics is committed to excellence in research, training, and education in the field of orthopaedics.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS SERVES AS AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH CENTER AS WELL AS A CLINICAL RESEARCH SITE CONDUCTING INDUSTRY RESEARCH.BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS received in kind contributions for volunteer services, professional services, and occupancy totaling $144,789.
$85,845 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,845.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $171k to $329k (+93%).
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.
100% of BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stephen Burkhart MD
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS: 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 BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS?
- BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,266 to it, the largest being Arthroscopy Association of North America ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,266 in grants to BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS?
- Arthroscopy Association of North America is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURKHART RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ORTHOPAEDICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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