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Buckner Foundation Inc

Grantmaking and asset management for the support and benefit of the 501(c)(3) ministries of buckner international.

$57M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25M
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.

Human Services$140MInternational$128MPhilanthropy$900k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
  • $250k+6 grants · $57M
$7,511,252
Median grant
2
States reached
$547M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL$24,629,187
BUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC$10,465,046
BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC$10,341,292
BUCKNER SENIOR LIVING INC$7,511,252
TARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC$3,175,000
IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$900,000
RIO GRANDE CHILDREN'S HOME INC$160,483
BAPTIST MEMORIALS MINISTRIES$43,355
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 (FY17–24, $230.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $24.6M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10.3M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $22.7M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $20.9M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $17.6M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15.8M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $14.0M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13.6M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13.3M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $12.4M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $11.4M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $11.4M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $11.2M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10.8M → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10.3M → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10.1M → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264M · 6 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$264M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-20%

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • BI
    BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $128M · revenue +129% · 71% of their budget
  • BR
    BUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +46%
  • BS
    BUCKNER SENIOR LIVING INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BA
    BUCKNER ADOPTION AND MATERNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $378k · 63% of their budget
  • MC
    MFHL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue -20% · 41% of their budget
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
Buckner Foundation Inc

Grantmaking and asset management for the support and benefit of the 501(c)(3) ministries of buckner international.

Human Services
2
Bst Health Services Corp

Bst health services corp is dedicated to quality retirement living with emphasis on individual well-being.

Health
3
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
4
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
5
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
6
Christian Care Retirement Apartments Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

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7
Benefis Health System Inc

We provide excellent care for all, healing body, mind and spirit. benefis health system, inc. is organized to oversee, coordinate and direct the assets and operations of benefis hospitals, inc., benefis community care, inc., benefis…

Health
8
Bhi Foundation Inc

To support bhi senior living, inc., a section 501(c)3 organization.

Housing & Shelter
9
Baptist Health System Inc

"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…

Health
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community

Bishop gadsden, a life care retirement community, embraces god's call to ministry. we affirm positive living for all who live and work here. we serve with integrity. we exercise wise stewardship. we reach out with a generous spirit.

Human Services
12
Christian Care Surprise Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buckner Senior Living Inc; the most unlike its peers is Impact Investing Charitable Foundation 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $127,696,814 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $102,964,968 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INCBUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $24,564,243 · Housing & ShelterBUCKNER RETIRE…BUCKNER SENIOR LIVING INC: $7,548,252 · Housing & ShelterBUCKNER SENIOR…TARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $3,175,000 · Housing & ShelterTARRANT COUNTY…RIO GRANDE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $1,140,694 · OtherBUCKNER ADOPTION AND MATERNITY SERVICES INC: $377,838 · OtherMFHL CORPORATION: $128,791 · OtherIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · PhilanthropyBAPTIST MEMORIALS MINISTRIES: $74,855 · Health
Human Services$230,661,782Housing & Shelter$35,287,495Other$1,647,323Philanthropy$900,000Health$74,855

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 budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $127,696,814 over 8y, 71% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $102,964,968 over 8y, 41% of budgetBUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $24,564,243 over 8y, 15% of budgetBUCKNER SENIOR LIVING INC: $7,548,252 over 2y, 19% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $3,175,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRIO GRANDE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $1,140,694 over 8y, 17% of budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUCKNER ADOPTION AND MATERNITY SERVICES INC: $377,838 over 1y, 63% of budgetMFHL CORPORATION: $128,791 over 1y, 41% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIALS MINISTRIES: $74,855 over 2y, 0.3% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Buckner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buckner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 10 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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