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BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT

BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,600 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($461,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$739k
Revenue FY2024
10
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$8.5M
Net assets
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−87% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)45% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2021 Revenue 547 ($914k) Expenses 790 ($779k) Net assets 298 ($204k)2022 Revenue 1413 ($2.4M) Expenses 1481 ($1.5M) Net assets 1613 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 5769 ($9.6M) Expenses 1591 ($1.6M) Net assets 13393 ($9.2M)2024 Revenue 442 ($739k) Expenses 1399 ($1.4M) Net assets 12459 ($8.5M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (442)Expenses (1399)Net assets (12459)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
20
$136k
21
$901k
22
$8.1M
23
$640k
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $345k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT’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

BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT.

31%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 50% · 2023 66%diversifying over time.

“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

25% of BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

57% of BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $631k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $853k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$25k

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 BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 17%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT?
BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,600 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($461,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,484,600 in grants to BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT?
THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $461,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BURNHAM CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing