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Buckley Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A PRECIOUS CHILD INC | $10,000 |
| COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC | $10,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS INTL RESPONSE FUND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $2,500 |
| JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| DRENNENS DREAMS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DENVER BALLET GUILD | $1,000 |
| BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DENVER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CICOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +19%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +79%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CHCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADOone grant, 2023 · $50k
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY - ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTone grant, 2017 · $12k
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Almost Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Denver Ballet Guild ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE WARRIOR BOOSTER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SHILOH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Buckley Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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