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Buckley Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Buckley Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$105k29%
FY202415$85k60%
FY20237$70k29%
FY20225$21k20%
FY20216$15k33%
FY20206$26k33%
FY20196$25k33%
FY20189$28k56%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$151kEducation$78kHuman Services$20kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$15kRecreation & Sports$7kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buckley Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColorado Institute of Developmental Pediatrics Inc: $46,400 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Precious Child Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Ballet Guild: $16,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetRocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Colorado: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLittleton Public Schools Foundation: $2,525 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYanam2m: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Ballet: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaise the Future: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSelfless Love Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlmost Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShiloh Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrent Eley Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Colorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Children's Advocacy Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe International Rhino Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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About Buckley Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Buckley Family Charitable Foundation give?
Buckley Family Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $109,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Buckley Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (26%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Buckley Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Institute of Developmental Pediatrics Inc ($46k), University of Colorado Foundation ($40k), Alliance for Choice in Education ($40k).
Does Buckley Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Buckley Family Charitable 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 Buckley Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Denver Children's Foundation.
Where is Buckley Family Charitable Foundation based?
Buckley Family Charitable Foundation is based in DE.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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