Illinois · Private foundation
Buckeye Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2023
- 32
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $926k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 9
- Total assets, FY2023
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Buckeye Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 32 | $926k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $939k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $945k | 85% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $809k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $485,000 | 4 | 0% |
| PACTT Learning Center | $385,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Guadalupe Center Inc | $275,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Home of the Sparrow Inc | $239,250 | 5 | 1% |
| The King's College | $225,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mount Carmel High School | $167,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | $132,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Southampton Youth Services Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Education Foundation of Collier County Inc | $115,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buckeye 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 Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Buckeye Foundation
- How much does Buckeye Foundation give?
- Buckeye Foundation reported 32 itemized grants totaling $926,400, out of $1,101,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Buckeye Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (13%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Buckeye Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($485k), PACTT Learning Center ($385k), Guadalupe Center Inc ($275k).
- Does Buckeye Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buckeye 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 Buckeye Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Buckeye Foundation based?
- Buckeye Foundation is based in IL.
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