Colorado · Private foundation
Buck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $667k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Buck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k 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 | 35 | $667k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $480k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $425k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $495k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $575k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $481k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $361k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Exchange Center Inc | $215,015 | 6 | 10% |
| La Puente Home Inc | $153,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Bayaud Enterprises Inc | $132,500 | 6 | 0% |
| 9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc | $131,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Grid Alternatives Colorado Inc | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Street Fraternity Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Alliance For Collective Action | $115,000 | 5 | 2% |
| 350 Colorado | $95,760 | 4 | 4% |
| Denver Food Rescue | $67,880 | 4 | 1% |
| High Country Conservation Center | $65,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buck 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 Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc
How this is measured
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About Buck Foundation
- How much does Buck Foundation give?
- Buck Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $667,376 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Buck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Buck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Village Exchange Center Inc ($215k), La Puente Home Inc ($153k), Bayaud Enterprises Inc ($133k).
- Does Buck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Buck Foundation based?
- Buck Foundation is based in CO.
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