· Private foundation
Buckley Charitable Trust
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k16 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| NORWELL VISITING NURSE ASSOCATION | $5,000 |
| ERIN CROGHAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $4,545 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,473 |
| ASHRAE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHAPTER | $2,000 |
| CHERYL ROSEN FUTURE ENGINEER SCHOLARSHIP | $2,000 |
| MAINE CHAPTER OF ASHRAE | $2,000 |
| ASHRAE GRANITE STATE CHAPTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SCITUATE ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| WEYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| PLYMOUTH ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2018–2021 · $7k
- ECERIN CROGHAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $6k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST3× · 2018–2021 · $4k
Funded once
- BSBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- MMMASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- WSWORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Buckley Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buckley Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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