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Buckner 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| FITZGIBBON HOSPITAL | $44,094 |
| SWEET SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $40,000 |
| MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE | $36,200 |
| DISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $27,338 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND NE MISSOURI | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY STEAM ENGINE ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| MARSHALL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $21,981 |
| MARSHALL COMMUNITY CHORUS | $20,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - ESL | $13,200 |
| TRI-COUNTY OUTREACH | $12,000 |
| SLATER HEALTHCARE FACILITIES CORP | $12,000 |
| GROW PEDIATRIC THERAPY SERVICES | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ARROW ROCK | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- HNHCC Network3× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +47%
- MVMISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE3× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +29%
- SSSWEET SPRINGS RESTORATION FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +14% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSALINE COUNTY CAREER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SCSALINE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +11%
- MCMARSHALL CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm life.
To improve the economic well being of agriculture in our communities
Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.
The bates county fair was formed by members of bates county, missouri in 1972 with the tax exempt purpose of promoting and educating the members of the bates county community.
Operate the Nodaway County Senior Center The Nodaway County Senior Citizens Senate, Inc operates the Nodaway County Senior Citizens center located in Maryville, Mo. The Center serves as
The operation of the annual Morgan County Illinois Fair
To educate the public about agriculture
To support recreational facilities for audrain county, mo.
To facilitate development of long-term diversified business and employment opportunities in Rolla, MO, Phelps County and the surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshall Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Blackwater. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 26. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 58 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 Tri-County Outreach ↗
- Who funds HCC Network ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SWEET SPRINGS RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COUNTY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds SALINE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI RIVER BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARROW ROCK ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL NICHOLAS BEAZLEY AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASA ↗
- Who funds COOPER COUNTY AGRICULTURE AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association ↗
- Who funds Marshall Philharmonic Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SLATER HEALTH CARE FACILITIES ↗
- Who funds SALT FORK YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds TAKING SHAPE INC ↗
- Who funds Grow Pediatric Therapy Services ↗
- Who funds RIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Mfa Oil Foundation · Foltz Martin Foundation Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Buckner 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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