Utah · Nonprofit
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION (Utah) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,149,625 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($474,484). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $312k
What Burma Humanitarian Mission does
Mission
Burma Humanitarian Mission provides medicine training to backpack medics who provide health care to isolated villages in Burma. In 2025, we provided support 50 teams with more than 2.9 million doses of medicine. We support training 40 new medics a year. We also support backpack medics' children to attend primary and secondary schools. The teams supported 147,913 people and treated over 41,000 patients. BHM supports primary and secondary schools in Thailand as well as educational opportunities or at risk youth in Burma's larger urban areas. BHM also supports civic & democratic education programs
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The backpack program supported 50 teams with more than 2.9 million doses of medicine. The teams provided medical care for more than 147,000+ isolated and internally displaced persons in Burma's conflict zones. They treated more than 41,000 patients. The program trained 40 new medics. BHM support included support for Medical Care Program, Mother-Child Program and Community Health Education and Prevention Program. BHM also support 121 backpack medics' children to attend primary and secondary schools in Mae Sot Thailand.
$221,070 spentof which $161,392 as grants$212,125 earned by the program79% of program spendingEducation programs include Minnahaw School.- Provides secondary and post-secondary education to students displaced by violence in Burma. Graduated 47 students into advanced programs to include 4 students to Universities.
$45,075 spentof which $45,000 as grants$57,579 earned by the program16% of program spendingKirana provides expert film documentary support that captures the courage, commitment and struggles of Burma's ethnic minorities.
$13,687 spentof which $13,687 as grants$13,750 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $279,832.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $156k to $237k (+52%).
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.
98% of BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Zurick
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Isherwood
Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $126k → $194k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Burma Humanitarian Mission). These are real filings, and they are not money BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION raised.
From the IRS filings of BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION’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
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 62% · 2020 52% · 2021 48% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k 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
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION is better cushioned than half of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Exhibitions,Shows,Spec.Events$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION: 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 BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION?
- BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION (Utah) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,149,625 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($474,484). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,149,625 in grants to BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION?
- Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $474,484 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 16 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