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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.

$709k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$291kHealth$132kArts & Culture$94kHuman Services$94kAnimals$74kCrime & Legal$44kRecreation & Sports$38kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $325,927, the rows itemized in this filing. The $709,485 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $383,558 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRIENDS OF DOYLESTOWN RUGBY$10,000
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLAYERS$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $7k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $10k → 11%PENNRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 6%ALONG THE WAY: $25k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $10k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $7k → 11%PENNRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 6%DOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $10k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $9k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $9k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $7k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $7k → 6%FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $11k → 6%YWCA BUCKS COUNTY: $10k → 6%NETWORK OF VICTIM ASSISTANCE (NOVA): $10k → 6%NETWORK OF VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $6k → 6%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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$405k · 16 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$405k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

94%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AS
    ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +28%
  • GV
    GRAND VIEW HOSPITAL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $39k · revenue +20%
  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +220%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $44k
  • DV
    DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +17%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +3%
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
Bucks County Medical Society

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…

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2
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
3
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
4
Bucks County Bar Association

The association is a professional organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of the legal profession.

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5
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
6
Pocono Health System

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.

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7
Land Trust of Bucks County

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…

Environment
8
Bucksport Regional Health Center

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.

Health
9
United Way of Bucks County

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.

Philanthropy
10
Brookville Hospital

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…

Health
11
The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

To advocate for and provide services to pennsylvania's hospitals and health systems to advance high-quality accessible and financially sustainable health care.

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12
Highlands Hospital

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $175,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANBUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $44,476 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $44,476 · OtherDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITYBRISTOL BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27,060 · OtherBRISTOL BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICTTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,743 · OtherHabitat For Humanity of Bucks County Inc: $20,000 · OtherBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $31,744 · Other+4 moreBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTU…VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $27,300 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE C…ALONG THE WAY: $25,000 · Human ServicesALONG THE WAYNetwork of Victim Assistance: $16,000 · Human ServicesNetwork of Victim As…BUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETIRED AND SENIOR CITIZENS: $12,900 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIA…FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $11,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOC…DOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOYLESTOWN AREA FISHYWCA OF BUCKS COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF BUCKS COUNTYONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $7,200 · Human ServicesANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $48,447 · HealthANN SILVERMAN CO…GRAND VIEW HOSPITAL: $38,968 · HealthGRAND VIEW HOSPI…ST LUKE'S QUAKERTOWN HOSPITAL: $12,500 · HealthST LUKE'S QUAKER…DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALT…PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $8,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $30,000 · AnimalsWOMEN'S HU…AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 · AnimalsAARK WILDL…NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $13,968 · AnimalsNORTH SHOR…BUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,243 · AnimalsBUCKS COUN…BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $35,500 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COU…BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBRISTOL R…Town and Country Players: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTown and …BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COU…LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $27,500 · Crime & LegalSpecial Equestrians Inc: $22,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$375,499Human Services$151,150Health$119,415Animals$74,211Arts & Culture$66,500Crime & Legal$27,500Recreation & Sports$22,500

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 budgetANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $48,447 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $44,476 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND VIEW HOSPITAL: $38,968 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $35,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $27,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALONG THE WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHabitat For Humanity of Bucks County Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,743 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNetwork of Victim Assistance: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $13,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETIRED AND SENIOR CITIZENS: $12,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST LUKE'S QUAKERTOWN HOSPITAL: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $11,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tileworks of Bucks County Inc: $10,244 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,243 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTown and Country Players: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $7,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Penn Community Bank F…Foundations Community…The Philadelphia Foun…Schiel Family Foundat…Bucks County Conferen…Independence Foundati…Connelly FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…The Haley FoundationBbla Foundation IncW W Smith Charitable …The Robert Wood Johns…
Penn Community Bank FoundationPA40.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bucks County Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bucks County Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 35 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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