Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Buckingham Mountain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $168k
- Granted FY2021
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $159k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 9
- Total assets, FY2021
- $711k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 72% of the organizations Buckingham Mountain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 18 | $159k | 72% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $133k | n/a |
81% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Education$197kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$15kInternational$12kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$4kScience & Tech$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germantown Friends School | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Philosophical Society | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Trauma Society Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westtown School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
About Buckingham Mountain Foundation
- How much does Buckingham Mountain Foundation give?
- Buckingham Mountain Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $159,000, out of $167,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
- What does Buckingham Mountain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Health (1%).
- Who are Buckingham Mountain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Germantown Friends School ($50k), International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region ($2k), American Friends Service Committee ($2k).
- Does Buckingham Mountain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buckingham Mountain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Buckingham Mountain Foundation based?
- Buckingham Mountain Foundation is based in PA.
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