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Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$297k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$297k0%
FY20238$282k0%
FY20229$244k0%
FY202112$319k0%
FY202012$308k8%
FY201910$320k0%
FY201811$391k0%
FY201711$338kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$733kHealth$587kHousing & Shelter$582kYouth Development$392kEducation$201kFood & Nutrition$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Johns Housing Partnership Inc$443,42382%
St Johns County Welfare Federation$433,00051%
Young Life$382,05980%
St Johns County Council on Aging Inc$299,56481%
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc$295,64083%
Good Samaritan Health Centers Inc$291,00089%
Safety Shelter of St Johns County Inc$139,00080%
Flagler College Inc$136,30680%
St Joseph Academy$36,8628n/a
St Johns County Education Foundation Inc Doing business as Ink$27,79780%
Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc$9,60040%
Pie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc$4,00021%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Johns Housing Partnership Inc: $443,423 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSt Johns County Welfare Federation: $433,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Life: $382,059 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Johns County Council on Aging Inc: $299,564 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFlagler Health Care Foundation Inc: $295,640 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Health Centers Inc: $291,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetSafety Shelter of St Johns County Inc: $139,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFlagler College Inc: $136,306 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Johns County Education Foundation Inc Doing business as Ink: $27,797 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc: $9,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · United Way of St Johns County Inc · Flagler Hospital Inc · The Lewis Greenwood Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association

How much does Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association give?
Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association reported 8 grants totaling $296,534 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (23%).
Who are Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Johns Housing Partnership Inc ($443k), St Johns County Welfare Federation ($433k), Young Life ($382k).
Does Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, United Way of St Johns County Inc, Flagler Hospital Inc.
Where is Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association based?
Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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