· Private foundation
Blue Buffalo Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Ohio State University Foundation | $715,000 |
| Animal Cancer Foundation | $540,000 |
| Catherine Hubbard Foundation | $250,000 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $243,000 |
| Sierra Delta Inc | $210,000 |
| Empower Scholarship Fund | $190,000 |
| The University of Florida Foundation | $169,300 |
| Cornell University | $100,000 |
| University of Georgia Foundation | $100,000 |
| Morris Animal Foundation | $75,000 |
| Urban Resources Institute | $50,000 |
| Faithful Forgotten Best Friends | $50,000 |
| Fund for the City of NY ZONE 126 | $50,000 |
| TeddyRox Foundation | $50,000 |
| Rescue Ridge | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Blue Buffalo Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
- ACANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $940k · revenue -54% · 57% of their budget
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- DEDEVRY EDUCATION GROUP SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $30k
- GRGolden Retriver Acres Senior Sanctuaryone grant, 2017 · $25k
- JHJohn Hopkins Universityone grant, 2017 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA DELTA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Faithful Forgotten Best Friends ↗
- Who funds URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Buffalo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Buffalo Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rescue Ridge: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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