California · Public charity
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
To increase the healthy, productive years of life through basic biomedical research on aging and age-related diseases.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Buck Institute for Research on Aging’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Buck Institute for Research on Aging named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $132M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Buck Institute for Research on Aging funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.9M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco | $2,200,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | $1,300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $800,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $800,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation | $700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $500,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco | $2,200,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | $1,300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $800,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $800,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation | $700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $500,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California Davis | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women & Infants Hospital of Ri | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buck Institute for Research on Aging 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Buck Institute for Research on Aging
- How much does Buck Institute for Research on Aging give?
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging reported 14 itemized grants totaling $2,839,884, out of $4,028,587 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Buck Institute for Research on Aging fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (98%), Science & Tech (2%).
- Who are Buck Institute for Research on Aging's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of California San Francisco ($2.2M), Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ($1.3M), Northwestern University ($800k).
- Does Buck Institute for Research on Aging fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buck Institute for Research on Aging?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Buck Institute for Research on Aging based?
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging is based in CA.
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