· Private foundation
Bucy Family Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RETURN TO FREEDOM | $9,375 |
| CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES | $8,375 |
| WELLINGTON SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $5,000 |
| OHIO WESLEYAN FUND | $4,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $2,500 |
| NEAL TAYLOR NATURE CENTER | $2,500 |
| LGBTQ FUND OF VERMONT | $2,500 |
| JUNCTION ARTS & MEDIA | $2,500 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| WESTERN SLOPE CONS CENTER | $1,500 |
| CENTER FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES | $1,500 |
| NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION | $1,300 |
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 (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- OCOPERA COLORADO9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +30%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +32%
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- APAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- COCONSPIRACY OF BEARDSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dark Skies Paonia. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 139 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 OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ FUND OF VERMONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS FOR SALONE ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Wise Fool New Mexico ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds JAG PRODUCTIONS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARK SKIES PAONIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Blue Cats ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Freefrom ↗
- Who funds THE CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Xcel Energy 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 Bucy Family Fund 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.