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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $325,927 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $709,485 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $383,558 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG | $175,000 |
| ALONG THE WAY | $25,000 |
| THE TILEWORKS OF BUCKS COUNTY | $10,244 |
| BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,243 |
| BUCKS COUNTY SPCA | $10,243 |
| YWCA BUCKS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BUCKS COUNTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| TOWN AND COUNTRY PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DOYLESTOWN RUGBY | $10,000 |
| ANN SILVERMAN HEALTH CLINIC | $9,947 |
| BRISTOL BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $9,550 |
| BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL | $9,000 |
| SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS | $7,500 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC | $7,300 |
| PENNRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,400 |
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 (FY21–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- ASANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +28%
- GVGRAND VIEW HOSPITAL3× · 2021–2023 · $39k · revenue +20%
- BCBUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- BCBUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $44k
- DVDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +17%
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +3%
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.
The bucks county medical society strives to advance the professional and personal development of its physician members by providing educational and practice related resources as well as legislative advocacy. moreover, the bucks county…
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The association is a professional organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of the legal profession.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To function as a community-based land conservancy for the preservation of farmland and our agricultural heritages, as well as other open spaces, natural resources, wildlife habitats, and scenic features within bedminster township and other…
Bucksport regional health center's mission is to provide medical, dental and other health and community services in the bucksport, maine area. it is a federally qualified health cener.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
To provide you with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. our vision is to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality service and outcomes. value…
To advocate for and provide services to pennsylvania's hospitals and health systems to advance high-quality accessible and financially sustainable health care.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tileworks of Bucks County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 35 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 ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALONG THE WAY ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity of Bucks County Inc ↗
- Who funds AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Network of Victim Assistance ↗
- Who funds BOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETIRED AND SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S QUAKERTOWN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Tileworks of Bucks County Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Town and Country Players ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN AREA FISH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.
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
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 Bucks County 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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