Pennsylvania · Public charity
Bucks County Foundation
The BUCKS COUNTY FOUNDATION was founded as a community foundation to afford individuals the opportunity to make lasting, flexible gifts to meet the needs of bucks county residents and to assist the county's charitable organizations both in existence and those to come in years ahead.
- $709k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $326k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Bucks County Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $326k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $140k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $143k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $98k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $130k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ann Silverman Community Health Clinic | $48,447 | 5 | 1% |
| Bucks County Community College | $44,476 | 1 | n/a |
| Delaware Valley University | $44,476 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand View Hospital | $38,968 | 3 | 0% |
| Bucks County Children's Museum | $35,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc | $31,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Valley Youth House Committee Inc | $27,300 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bucks County Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Penn Community Bank Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · The Philadelphia Foundation · Schiel Family Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Haley Foundation · Bbla Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bucks County Foundation
- How much does Bucks County Foundation give?
- Bucks County Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $325,927, out of $709,485 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bucks County Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Bucks County Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Regents of the University of Michigan ($175k), Ann Silverman Community Health Clinic ($48k), Bucks County Community College ($44k).
- Does Bucks County Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bucks County Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Penn Community Bank Foundation, Foundations Community Partnership, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is Bucks County Foundation based?
- Bucks County Foundation is based in PA.
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