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Busch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Youth Development$203kArts & Culture$171kEducation$168kHuman Services$158kCommunity Improvement$82kAnimals$70kInternational$32kHousing & Shelter$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAVY SEAL MUSEUM$15,000
THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC$11,000
GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC$10,000
UNITED AGAINST POVERTY$9,000
MISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
BLUE ANGELS PSSC INC$4,000
THE DAVID A BURKE FOUNDATION INC$2,500
BRITNEY LEE FOUNDATION$1,500
JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL$1,200
OPERATION 300 INC$1,000
GULFSTREAM GOODWILL$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ST LUCIE COUNTY$1,000
ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC$1,000
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LLC$1,000
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 (FY19–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAREBAG INC: $30k → 13%OUR VILLAGE OKEECHOBEE INC: $1k → 18%ELEV8HOPE INC: $250 → 10%ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHALLENGED OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $1k → 10%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTINST LUCIE INC: $10k → 10%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTINST LUCIE INC: $5k → 10%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $25k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $2k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $1k → 11%GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $10k → 13%GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $3k → 13%THE BRITNEY LEE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%BRITNEY LEE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%BRITNEY LEE FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$855k · 48 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
68

Total granted

$855k
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    The Curetivity Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +81%
  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +219%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • SO
    SAVE OUR MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CI
    CAREBAG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +48% · 33% of their budget
  • KP
    KYLE PATTERSON TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
Celebrities Fore Kids Inc

The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…

Human Services
2
Hospice of Martin & St Lucie Inc

Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…

Human Services
3
South Florida Guardianship Program Inc

The organization's mission is to provide pro bono guardianship services and care management to indigent individuals with disabling conditions.

Health
4
The South Florida Charity Classic
Human Services
5
Santa Rosa Kids' House Inc

To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first

Youth Development
6
Floridas Love in Action
Human Services
7
Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children

Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.

Crime & Legal
8
Florida Food Force Inc

To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.

Food & Nutrition
9
Hospice of the Treasure Coast Inc

Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.

—
10
Deliver the Dream Inc

A retreat program that enables families who are experiencing serious illness or crisis to regain strength, mend spirits and just be families and kids again.

Health
11
Disability Rights Florida Inc

Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.

Civil Rights
12
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Mental Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Backus Scholarship Fund Inc. 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

72 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. 72 of the 126 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
48/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $106,500 · OtherUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCST LUCIE COUNTY HUNDRED CLUB: $61,000 · OtherST LUCIE COUNTY HUNDRED CLUBBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $45,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBTHE LAYNE CHESNEY IRREVOCABLE TRUST: $29,201 · OtherTHE LAYNE CHESNEY IRREVOCABLE TRUSTUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $27,350 · OtherUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC+79 more: $180,500 · Other+79 moreDDS4VETS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesDDS4VETS INCWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VETERANS …CAREBAG INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCAREBAG INCPLACE OF HOPE INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FOU…GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesGRACE WAY VILLAGE…+6 more: $12,650 · Human Services+6 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC: $100,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS C…PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…OPERATION 300 INC: $11,570 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION 300 IN…PROJECT LIFT INC: $6,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Curetivity Foundation: $112,500 · HealthThe Curetivit…ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $5,000 · Health+8 more: $10,850 · Health+8 moreTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $69,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,250 · AnimalsSAVE OUR MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE OF FLORIDA: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBACKUS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $20,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · EducationSOUTHEAST FLORIDA HONOR FLIGHT INC: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $2,200 · Education
Other$450,051Human Services$158,150Youth Development$155,320Health$128,350Animals$70,250Arts & Culture$54,000Education$35,200

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 budgetThe Curetivity Foundation: $112,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $106,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC: $100,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $69,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE OUR MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDDS4VETS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAREBAG INC: $30,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $27,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBACKUS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of NORTHWEST MONTANA: $15,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $11,570 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT PIERCE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRITNEY LEE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDeliverFund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANDUZER FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST FLORIDA HONOR FLIGHT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE OF FLORIDA: $3,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSURFERS FOR AUTISM II INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGU: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN SOLDIER OUTREACH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF FORT PIERCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMaya Matters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetOUR VILLAGE OKEECHOBEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION): $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUCIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Bernard a Egan Founda…The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Hobe Sound Community …Indian River Communit…United Way of Martin …Gordana Uscumlic Foun…John's Island Communi…The John's Island Fou…United Way of Indian …Grand Harbor Communit…W and H Thomas Charit…
Bernard a Egan Foundation IncFL36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · Gordana Uscumlic Foundation · John's Island Community Service League Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 430%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc: 27% of income from government
  • 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Guardians for New Futures Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Grace Way Village Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Hope Center for Autism Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
43get no government money at all
10report 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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How do I get to Busch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Busch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 126 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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