Indiana · Public charity
Buckingham Foundation Inc
The foundation's primary mission is to serve a critical role to proactively initiate positive change in the areas of affordable housing, community and economic development, and arts and culture. The foundation is focused on opportunities which promote long term sustainability, support innovation, and leverage significant impact.
- $962k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $625k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,520
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Buckingham Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 18 | $625k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $426k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $369k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $238k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $145k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $247k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $364k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $107k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis First Baptist Church | $800,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Challenging Heights | $490,000 | 5 | 35% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis | $300,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $129,734 | 7 | 0% |
| Marian University | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Helpings Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc | $35,090 | 3 | 1% |
| Joined for Good Inc Dba Brackets for Good | $33,399 | 2 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $30,515 | 2 | 1% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Buckingham Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Arthur Jordan Foundation
How this is measured
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About Buckingham Foundation Inc
- How much does Buckingham Foundation Inc give?
- Buckingham Foundation Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $624,912, out of $961,981 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Buckingham Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (33%), Philanthropy (19%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Buckingham Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Indianapolis First Baptist Church ($800k), Friends of Challenging Heights ($490k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ($300k).
- Does Buckingham Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buckingham Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Buckingham Foundation Inc based?
- Buckingham Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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