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Bucknell University

Bucknell is a unique national university where liberal arts and professional programs complement each other.

$91M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$444kScience & Tech$262kEducation$149kPhilanthropy$33kReligion$11kEnvironment$9k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $61,112, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,088,857 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,027,745 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$41,413
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of California$41,413
Geisinger Clinic$19,699
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Woodtiger Foundation: $21k → 6%Geisinger Clinic: $99k → 10%Kutztown University: $25k → 11%Western PA Conservancy: $9k → 11%Hazen and Sawyer: $10k → 16%University of California: $41k → 10%Advaita Society Hanuman Fell: $11k → 13%Univ of Southern California: $10k → 14%Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst: $14k → 11%University of Texas SA: $19k → 16%Fauna and Flora: $33k → 14%Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unv: $38k → 12%Indiana University: $23k → 18%Geisinger Clinic: $88k → 10%Kutztown University: $15k → 11%University of California: $38k → 10%Rensselaer Polyteechnic Inst: $11k → 11%Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unv: $19k → 12%Indiana University: $17k → 18%Geisinger Clinic: $84k → 10%Kutztown University: $13k → 11%University of California: $19k → 10%Rensselaer Polyteechnic Inst: $11k → 11%Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unv: $7k → 12%Geisinger Clinic: $71k → 10%Geisinger Clinic: $59k → 10%Geisinger Clinic: $24k → 10%Geisinger Clinic: $20k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
PA
CA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $11M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $108k to organizations and $11M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$3.8M · 36% · 106 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.5M · 33% · 184 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.8M · 17% · 1 grant · 31 people

Stated purpose: Collab. Research · Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

South Asia$929k · 9% · 13 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens

North America (Canada and Mexico)$345k · 3% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: Collab. Research · Scholarships to Non-US Citizens

Central America and the Caribbean$139k · 1% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

South America$131k · 1% · 4 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

Russia and Neighboring States$61k · 1% · 4 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships to Non-US Citizens · Scholarships-BU Students Abroad

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$794k · 7 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$794k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+181%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • GC
    GEISINGER CLINIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $444k · revenue +70%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $64k · revenue +40%
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    3× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +181%
  • TW
    THE WOODTIGER FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +426%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
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
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
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
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
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Rider University

Rider university is a comprehensive, private university offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business, education, liberal arts, sciences, music, and fine and performing arts.see schedule o for rider university's mission, vision,…

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Pennsylvania Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is The Woodtiger Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEISINGER CLINIC: $443,966 · HealthGEISINGER CLINICREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $98,610 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $59,613 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $53,023 · OtherKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine: $39,649 · OtherIndiana University School of Medici…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $19,277 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIOHAZEN AND SAWYER DPC: $9,977 · OtherEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $63,740 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE …Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $35,533 · EducationRensselaer Po…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,963 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $33,008 · PhilanthropyTHE WOODTIGER FUND: $21,000 · PhilanthropyHanuman Fellowship: $10,502 · ReligionWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $9,180 · Environment
Health$443,966Other$280,149Education$109,236Philanthropy$54,008Religion$10,502Environment$9,180

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEISINGER CLINIC: $443,966 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $63,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $35,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $33,008 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHanuman Fellowship: $10,502 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,963 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $9,180 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.

  • Who funds GEISINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODTIGER FUND ↗
  • Who funds Hanuman Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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