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Budnik Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUDATO SI PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| WYA FOUNDATION INC | $36,000 |
| WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION | $31,402 |
| THE LYCEUM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIAT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM | $15,000 |
| MARY'S MEALS USA | $15,000 |
| LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | $12,185 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DUTCHESS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE BRIDEGROOM MONASTERY | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE SALESIANUM TRUST | $10,000 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Budnik Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +148% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- WFWYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +14%
- WFWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue +41%
- LSLAUDATO SI PROJECT INC7× · 2019–2025 · $144k · revenue +944%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM LTDone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -56%
- VHVeranova Healthgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +31%
- SCST CECILIA CONGREGATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…
Inspired by don boscos vision of the two pillarsatop which stood our lady on one pillar and the most holy eucharist on the otherthe goal of regina angelorum institute is to help souls come to know and love jesus, especially in the blessed…
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…
Regina luminis academy is a private, independent school grades pre-k through 12, founded, with the help of gods grace, to assist parents in the education and formation of their children by providing a classical liberal arts education in…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Guided by Christian faith, St. Therese Academy guides students with Montessori, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and classical principles to live out the gospel message, achieve academic excellence, and joyfulluy lead by faith, virtue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Josaphat Basilica Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wethersfield Foundation Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 42 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 WYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance ↗
- Who funds WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDATO SI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LYCEUM ↗
- Who funds ST JOSAPHAT BASILICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRO LABORE DEI INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM LTD ↗
- Who funds Veranova Health ↗
- Who funds LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE RAFFAELLA BALLET INC STROIK ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Padre Pio Academy ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
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: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Budnik Family 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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