· Private foundation
Buck Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Fdn | $30,000 |
| Wake Forest University | $20,000 |
| La Jolla Institute of Immunology | $18,000 |
| The Kinkaid School | $10,000 |
| University of Texas | $10,000 |
| reMind | $6,000 |
| MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital | $5,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 |
| Pingry School Annual Fund | $5,000 |
| Thurman White Academy | $4,000 |
| Center for Biological Diversity | $4,000 |
| Children's Home Society | $2,500 |
| Choate Rosemary Hall ALumni Fund | $2,500 |
| Banner Lake Club | $1,500 |
| Spring Spirit Baseball | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MHMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $216k · revenue +645%
- TKThe Kinkaid School Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +87%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LJLA JOLLA INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLGYone grant, 2020 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $16k
- MPMARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Education and Research
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds STREET TEENS ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Crain Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Buck Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.