Bobby Burnette Net Worth 2026: Love A Child Founder, Salary

No reputable publisher has released a net worth estimate for Bobby Burnette, and the $10 million figure on older profile sites (its own FAQ said $7.1 million) had no source. What is public is his pay: Burnette co-founded Love A Child, a Christian charity working in Haiti, and its IRS filings list him as vice president with $181,099 in reported compensation for 2025. He and his wife, Sherry, have lived at the charity's orphanage in Fond Parisien, Haiti, for about 35 years.

What is Bobby Burnette's net worth?

There is no sourced estimate. Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth and the major newspapers have not published one, and the old yearly, monthly and daily income figures on this page were invented. The old page also described him as a social worker employed by "reputed companies." That was wrong: Burnette is a missionary and the co-founder of a nonprofit, and his income comes from the salary that charity pays him, which it must report to the IRS every year.

A nonprofit salary is not the same as ownership. Love A Child's assets, about $46.2 million at the end of 2025, belong to the charity, not to the Burnettes.

Bobby Burnette's salary

Love A Child files a Form 990 with the IRS, published through ProPublica's nonprofit database. The filings list "Robert Burnette" as vice president and "Sharyn Burnette" as president, with identical pay.

Executive pay made up about 2.8% of the charity's expenses in 2025. The filings also note that the organization provided first-class or charter travel to key officers and reported transactions with interested parties, both of which must be detailed on the return's schedules. The highest-paid person in both years was executive director Sandra Hazelip.

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Love A Child

Love A Child, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Christian humanitarian charity based in Fort Myers, Florida, with a tax exemption dating to August 1986. According to its own site, its programs in Haiti include feeding, an orphanage, medical care, churches and schools, a birthing center, disaster relief and an agricultural training center that teaches farming techniques. Its "Food For Life" sustainability work aims to help Haitians earn a living wage.

The charity is funded almost entirely by donations. Contributions were 97.6% of revenue in 2025 and 97.5% in 2024. Revenue has swung widely from year to year, from $64.5 million in 2018 to $26.5 million in 2025, according to the IRS data on ProPublica.

Career and life in Haiti

Bobby and Sherry Burnette have lived in Haiti as missionaries since 1991, KHOU reported in 2010. They set up a clinic for the poor, a school and an orphanage about 30 miles east of Port-au-Prince. When the January 2010 earthquake struck, their orphanage stayed standing and no one there was hurt, but Burnette told the station that several orphans attending school in the capital were missing and that he was preparing the clinic for a wave of injured people. Sherry Burnette later told the story of their work and the earthquake response in a book, Love Is Something You Do.

In a February 2026 update on the charity's site, Burnette wrote that the past six years had been the hardest of their time in Haiti, with armed gangs controlling territory starting about eight miles from the compound. He said the charity relies on professional security to protect its property and has kept expanding its work. In September 2026 the charity announced a new television program, Reaching Empty Hands.

Bobby Burnette's wife and family

Burnette is married to Sherry Burnette, his co-founder, who is listed in IRS filings as Sharyn Burnette, president of Love A Child. Their daughter, Julie Halecki, lived in Kingwood, Texas, when KHOU interviewed her in 2010. The old claims on this page about his childhood, siblings, school grades, age, height and weight had no source and have been removed.

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Net worth compared

Other ministry leaders on this site include Aaron Brockett, lead pastor of Traders Point Christian Church in Indiana. Churches do not have to file a public Form 990, so his pay is private; Love A Child is a charity rather than a church and does file, which is why Burnette's salary can be stated here.

How this page was checked

The pay and revenue numbers come from the charity's own IRS returns as digitized by ProPublica. Biographical facts come from KHOU's 2010 report and Love A Child's website. No outlet has estimated the Burnettes' personal assets, so this page does not guess at them.