Colorado · 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Bucy Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $75k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $60k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $57k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $65k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $72k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $72k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $75k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $71k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera Colorado | $79,500 | 9 | 1% |
| The Center for Cartoon Studies | $31,575 | 9 | 1% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Music Academy of the West | $25,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $20,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Return to Freedom Inc | $18,775 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Angel Heart | $17,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated | $15,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $13,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Northern Stage Company | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bucy Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Bucy Family Fund
- How much does Bucy Family Fund give?
- Bucy Family Fund reported 41 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bucy Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (20%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Bucy Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Opera Colorado ($80k), The Center for Cartoon Studies ($32k), Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($28k).
- Does Bucy Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bucy Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bucy Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Bucy Family Fund based?
- Bucy Family Fund is based in CO.
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