Maryland · 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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $479k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Buck Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $130k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $119k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $116k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $67k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $94k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $103k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $97k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $98k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation | $216,302 | 7 | 2% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $82,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $47,000 | 4 | 0% |
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology | $46,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Remind | $37,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Williams College | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Holton Arms School | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Maryland Pesticide Education Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buck Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Buck Family Foundation
- How much does Buck Family Foundation give?
- Buck Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Buck Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (37%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Buck Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation ($216k), The Kinkaid School Inc ($83k), Wake Forest University ($47k).
- Does Buck Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buck Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buck Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Powell Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Buck Family Foundation based?
- Buck Family Foundation is based in MD.
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