· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DUTCHESS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE BRIDEGROOM MONASTERY | $10,000 |
| THE SALESIANUM TRUST | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Budnik Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 10%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RAFFAELLA BALLET INC STROIK ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Budnik Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Budnik Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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