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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$15,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$10,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$10,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD INC$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY - ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPT$7,500
COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC$5,200
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$4,000
THE ARC OF COLORADO-ADVOCATING FOR PEOPLE WITH DEV$2,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC$2,500
YANAM2M$2,500
COLORADO BALLET COMPANY$2,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%FAMILY TREE INC: $3k → 7%SHILOH HOME INC: $1k → 7%YANAM2M: $3k → 8%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 16 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$326k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +19%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • LP
    LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +166%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Colorado Children's Campaign

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.…

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3
Adoption Options

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.

Human Services
4
Invest in Kids

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.

Youth Development
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

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…

Health
6
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
7
Colorado Dream Foundation

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…

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8
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…

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9
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Aia Colorado

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…

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12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO: $50,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADOCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $46,400 · OtherCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS I…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY - ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPT: $19,500 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY - ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHA…+9 more: $20,750 · Other+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO …ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $40,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN …ARAPAHOE WARRIOR BOOSTER ORGANIZATION: $4,500 · EducationChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $27,500 · HealthChildren's Hospita…Children's Hospital Colorado: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN DOW…GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOU…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …FAMILY TREE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY TR…YANAM2M: $2,500 · Human ServicesYANAM2MRAISE THE FUTURE: $2,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE…SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSELFLESS …+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 · Food & NutritionDenver Ballet Guild: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALLET: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,525 · Philanthropy
Other$176,650Education$84,500Health$66,500Human Services$35,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Arts & Culture$19,000Philanthropy$6,525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 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
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.

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 Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Denver Children's…The Colorado Health F…Schlessman Foundation…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buckley Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buckley Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Buckley Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Buckley Family Charitable Foundation 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.

    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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