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Buente Family Foundation Inc

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
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$163kCommunity Improvement$131kHuman Services$130kHealth$123kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kPhilanthropy$75kInternational$39kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$30,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–23, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SAMARITAS: $25k → 11%SAMARITAS: $25k → 21%SAMARITAS: $16k → 21%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
MI
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 13 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$560k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+57%

Still filing today

46%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalFood & NutritionInternationalHealthOther
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

  • S
    SAMARITAS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $71k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +117%
  • RB
    RODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $35k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • RF
    RODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +150%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AM
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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.

1
Direct Relief

Direct relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies - without regard to politics, religion, or…

International
2
National Marrow Donor Program

We save lives through cellular therapy.

Health
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Nmdp Foundation

Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cellular therapy.

Philanthropy
5
Mayo Clinic Group Return

To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

Health
6
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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7
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
8
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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9
Direct Relief Foundation

The foundation is organized to operate solely and exclusively for the benefit of, to support, or to carry out the purposes of direct relief.

Human Services
10
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
11
Licr Fund Inc

Licr fund, inc. is a supporting organization of the ludwig institute for cancer research ltd ("the institute") and provides grants and/or other assistance to the institute to support the institute's conduct of medical research activities.

Health
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc; the most unlike its peers is Michael Miller Memorial Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $131,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEM EVANGELICAL LUTH CHURCH: $85,025 · OtherMEM EVANGELICAL LUTH CHURCHMEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $36,000 · OtherMEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCHUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS: $35,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNSUNITED WAY: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $20,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AM: $20,000 · OtherWE CARE INC: $19,000 · OtherFDTN PIERRE SMITH MONDELUS: $18,500 · OtherPEACE EVANGELIC CHURCH: $17,000 · Other+12 more: $63,000 · Other+12 moreMAYO CLINIC: $95,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICMICHAEL MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSAMARITAS: $71,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITASAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $70,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FO…RODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalRODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCER: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $15,000 · InternationalTWELVE BASKETS: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$464,525Health$100,000Human Services$91,000Public Safety & Disaster$70,000Crime & Legal$35,000Philanthropy$35,000International$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAS: $71,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWELVE BASKETS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 23% of budget
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds RODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds RODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds TWELVE BASKETS ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Buente Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buente Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • United Way of St Johns County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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