The Burkitt Foundation

Analysis

The Burkitt Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in El Paso, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Burkitt Foundation reported income of $2.8m and spending of $1.6m, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.7m to $2.8m (+2.1%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 42% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Burkitt Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Greater Lorain County ($2.8m), American Friends of Mosdos Bet Shemesh ($2.8m) and Greater Houston Community Foundation ($2.8m).

At year end it held assets of $35.0m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $35.0m.