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Buckley Family Endowment Inc

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.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$327kYouth Development$105kEducation$77kArts & Culture$15kHealth$11kHuman Services$11kInternational$8kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$768k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$30,000
MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY$30,000
GLOBAL GOOD FUND$10,000
YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
SAMARITAN MINISTRY$3,500
WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$3,000
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH$3,000
BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH$2,000
THE LAUREL CENTER$1,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF VA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$1,000
ST BRIDGET'S CHAPEL OF SACRED HEART CHURCH$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A LEG FOREVER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%HOSTAGE US INC: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
WY
IA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DE
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$553k · 39 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
22

Total granted

$553k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+47%

Still filing today

51%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • GG
    Global Good Fund
    7× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +86%
  • Fairfield University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +48%
  • TL
    THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RC
    RARE CROSSROADS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -100%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +47%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS JACKSON HOLE
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rare Crossroads 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

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.

04the grantee network

36 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC — $242,500 · OtherMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INCHOLY TRINITY CHURCH — $24,300 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CHURCHSAMARITAN MINISTRY — $20,500 · OtherSAMARITAN MINISTRYBLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH — $17,000 · OtherST BRIDGET'S CHAPEL OF SACRED HEART CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Other+31 more — $37,191 · Other+31 moreYouth Leadership Foundation Inc — $42,000 · EducationYouth Leadership Fo…Fairfield University — $38,500 · EducationFairfield Universit…WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $15,300 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL F…+2 more — $5,000 · EducationGlobal Good Fund — $63,400 · Public BenefitGlobal Good …THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSTAGE US INC — $500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesMedical Mission of Mercy USA Inc — $7,800 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 · InternationalNational Gallery of Art — $5,950 · Arts & CultureCOSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,325 · Arts & CultureWinchester Little Theatre Inc — $1,250 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $795 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $445 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $410 · Arts & CultureRARE CROSSROADS INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $200 · Health+3 more — $300 · Health
Other$370,491Education$100,800Public Benefit$63,400Human Services$10,600International$10,300Arts & Culture$10,175Health$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGlobal Good Fund — $63,400 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetYouth Leadership Foundation Inc — $42,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetFairfield University — $38,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $15,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMedical Mission of Mercy USA Inc — $7,800 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $5,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRARE CROSSROADS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasey Trees — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,325 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWinchester Little Theatre Inc — $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $795 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA — $700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSTAGE US INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $445 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'SCHORUSOFWASHINGTON — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LEG FOREVER — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BRANCH HISTORIC HOUSE & FARM — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Global Good Fund
  • Who funds Youth Leadership Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Fairfield University
  • Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
  • Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE
  • Who funds Medical Mission of Mercy USA Inc
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art
  • Who funds RARE CROSSROADS INC
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Casey Trees
  • Who funds COSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Winchester Little Theatre Inc
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA
  • Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

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.

The Bank of Clarke County FoundationVA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Tj Guarriello Jr Family Foundation · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Stern Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Give Back Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Endowment Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Buckley Family Endowment Inc?

Find your warmest path to Buckley Family Endowment Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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