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Buckey Clark 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN SUSSEX ROTARY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DE WILDLANDS INC | $10,000 |
| DE BOTANIC GARDENS | $6,000 |
| MERR INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WAYNESBORO AREA INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE TRUST & MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC VILLAGE OCEAN VIEW | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 91% of Buckey Clark Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in DE; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- COCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +15%
- CFCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +151%
- GPGREYHOUND PET ADOPTIONS OF DELAWARE2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DWDELAWARE WILD LANDS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +14%
- STST TIMOTHY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
- DTDE TECH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Partnership for the delaware estuary, inc. (pde), host of the delaware estuary program, leads collaborative, science-based efforts to improve the delaware river and bay, which covers portions of delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania.
The mission of the wetlands institute is to promote appreciation, understanding and stewardship of wetland and coastal ecosystems through programs in research, conservation and education.
St. andrew's school develops the independence, character, mind, and spirit of its students to prepare them for lives of citizenship, service, and purpose.all our students live, learn, and play in the natural beauty of our 2,200-acre…
We work to create a better world through joyful learning on long island sound. soundwaters enriches our community and protects our environment through environmental education, jobs and skills training, and public engagement.
To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.
We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.
Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.
Soundkeeper is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the biological, physical, and chemical integrity of the long island sound and its watershed.
The mission of the Delaware Technology Park is to stimulate economic growth and create high-value jobs in the Mid-Atlantic region by providing affordable state-of-the-art facilities, access to necessary resources and connections to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Inland Bays Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strength in Our Voices. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 31 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 CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC ↗
- Who funds GREYHOUND PET ADOPTIONS OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds Vermont Haiti Project ↗
- Who funds STRENGTH IN OUR VOICES ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Buckey Clark 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 74% 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.
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