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Bucknall Family 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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$77kEnvironment$50kEducation$29kHealth$21kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$11kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$576k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KNOLLWOOD GARDEN CLUB$3,000
ALL SOULS' CHURCH$2,900
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM$2,000
HELENA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION$1,700
CHRIST EPISOPAL CHURCH$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES$1,500
TEMPLE OF THE PRESENCE$1,500
DUBLIN SCHOOL$1,500
WESTSIDE WOMEN INC$1,200
THE PROPHETS HOUSE REFUGE$1,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA$1,000
GREENWICH LAND TRUST$1,000
GLEBE HOUSE AND GERTRUDE JEKYLL GAR$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 (FY18–24, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HISTORIC PROPERTIES OF GREENWICH: $500 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 9%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

VT
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$234k · 47 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
47

Total granted

$234k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MT
    MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +27%
  • DS
    DUBLIN SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +75%
  • HI
    HORTULUS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • OC
    ONTEORA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -84%
  • CT
    CARON TREATMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

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

3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects

Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.

7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Properties of Greenwich Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Dog Refuge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%19%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 19% 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%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,509

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

52 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. 52 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALL SOULS' CHURCH — $33,672 · OtherALL SOULS' CHURCHTEMPLE OF THE PRESENCE INC — $26,700 · OtherTEMPLE OF THE PRESENCE INCMOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INC — $21,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INCCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $13,278 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHKNOLLWOOD GARDEN CLUB — $9,000 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INC — $7,150 · OtherNOLS — $6,500 · Other+60 more — $62,851 · Other+60 moreTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN C…HORTULUS INC — $8,500 · EnvironmentHORTULUS INCTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $6,250 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWIC…THE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC — $2,100 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWIC…GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC — $2,050 · EnvironmentGREENWICH PO…+2 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentDUBLIN SCHOOL INC — $9,500 · EducationDUBLIN SCHOO…WESTOVER SCHOOL INC — $7,500 · EducationWESTOVER SCH…Franklin Pierce University — $5,899 · EducationFranklin Pie…MILLBROOK SCHOOL — $2,475 · EducationMILLBROOK SC…+8 more — $4,125 · Education+8 moreGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC — $4,600 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $3,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $1,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $900 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $500 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 · Health+3 more — $400 · HealthTUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNewburyport Art Association Inc — $1,500 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureONTEORA HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC — $900 · Arts & Culture23 Arts Initiative Inc — $750 · Arts & CultureSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC — $500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST GREENWICH ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $4,500 · Community ImprovementTHE HUNTER FOUNDATION INC — $3,300 · Community ImprovementONTEORA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$180,151Environment$30,400Education$29,499Health$14,400Arts & Culture$8,150Community Improvement$7,800Membership Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INC — $21,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUBLIN SCHOOL INC — $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHORTULUS INC — $8,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC — $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $7,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $6,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFranklin Pierce University — $5,899 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONTEORA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC — $4,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER FOUNDATION INC — $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHelena Youth Soccer Association — $2,701 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS — $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL — $2,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC — $2,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC — $2,050 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF GREENWICH POINT — $1,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNewburyport Art Association Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTEORA HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $975 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC — $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budget23 Arts Initiative Inc — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH GREEN & CLEAN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC PROPERTIES OF GREENWICH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DOG REFUGE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyme Warrior Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LYME — $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 MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INC
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA
  • Who funds DUBLIN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds HORTULUS INC
  • Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC
  • Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds Franklin Pierce University
  • Who funds ONTEORA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds NORTHEAST GREENWICH ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE HUNTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds Helena Youth Soccer Association
  • Who funds TUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS
  • Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GREENWICH POINT
  • Who funds Newburyport Art Association Inc

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.

Royce Family Fund IncCT28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Royce Family Fund Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Grandview-Steers Foundation · Winokur Family Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Memton Fund Inc · Dr Joseph J Lawrence Trust Diana Serrell Trustee · Alexander Host Foundation · The John L and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation · The Old Stones Foundation 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 Bucknall Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Family Centers Inc20% of income from government
  • Greenwich Arts Council Inc1% of income from government
  • Newburyport Art Association Inc1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 106 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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