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.

Bucy Family Fund

Bucy Family Fund at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$9k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$241kEducation$121kEnvironment$58kAnimals$53kPhilanthropy$30kFood & Nutrition$23kHealth$20kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
JUNCTION ARTS & MEDIA	$2,500
LGBTQ FUND OF VERMONT	$2,500
NEAL TAYLOR NATURE CENTER	$2,500
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$2,000
CENTER FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES	$1,500
WESTERN SLOPE CONS CENTER	$1,500
NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION	$1,300

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$574k · 91 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$574k

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+38%

Still filing today

70%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther

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

OC
OPERA COLORADO
9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +30%
TC
THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +32%
MA
MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +141%

Funded once

AP
AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
CO
CONSPIRACY OF BEARDS
one grant, 2017 · $3k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment

Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Community Radio for Northern Colorado

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 -…

Arts & Culture

Colorado Legal 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.

Crime & Legal

National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech

The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/91

Grantees still filing

69/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$210,165Other$218,134Education$65,636Animals$45,425Environment$35,772Philanthropy$26,200Food & Nutrition$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bucy Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bucy Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home