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Buster Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Buster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$140k57%
FY20238$47k63%
FY202212$198k42%
FY202113$91k23%
FY202011$108k36%
FY201921$108k48%
FY201824$101k38%
FY201725$106kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$341kArts & Culture$151kHealth$127kPhilanthropy$52kHousing & Shelter$49kHuman Services$45kCommunity Improvement$31kYouth Development$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IN
CA
KY
VA
TN
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Buster Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Immanuel Baptist Church$159,0004n/a
Redlands Historical Museum Association Inc$125,00032%
The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition$48,50040%
Redlands Community Hospital$30,00020%
Redlands Community Hospital Foundation$30,00021%
Kid Swap Restore Inc$22,500314%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redla Riverside$18,00011%
Family Service Association of Redlands$15,36030%
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital$10,00020%
Glocal Outreach$5,00015%
United States Veterans Initiative$5,00010%
Stater Bros Charities$5,00010%
Redlands Police Community Foundation$4,23041%
City of Redlands$3,0003n/a
San Bernardino County Sheriffs Employees Benefit Assoc-Charity Fund$2,50041%
Crossroads Christian Center$2,5001n/a
Children's Fund Inc$2,00010%
River of Life Church$2,0001n/a
Redlands Police Officers Foundation$1,8652n/a
Yucaipa Community Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00020%
The Blessing Center Inc$1,00010%
Civitan Little League$1,0002n/a
Salt Church$1,0001n/a
Blue Collar Athletics Inc$1,0001n/a
Hope Missions International$5001n/a
Wildlife Conservation Society$50010%
Cmf International$2501n/a

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buster Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRedlands Historical Museum Association Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Coachella Valley Housing Coalition: $48,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRedlands Community Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedlands Community Hospital Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKid Swap Restore Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redla Riverside: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Service Association of Redlands: $15,360 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLoma Linda University Children's Hospital: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlocal Outreach: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUnited States Veterans Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStater Bros Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRedlands Police Community Foundation: $4,230 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSan Bernardino County Sheriffs Employees Benefit Assoc-Charity Fund: $2,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blessing Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Inland Empire Community FoundationCA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Paul D Ware Foundation · The Jack H Brown Family Foundation · Annette M Williams Charitable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Buster Family Foundation

How much does Buster Family Foundation give?
Buster Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $139,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Buster Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (14%).
Who are Buster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Immanuel Baptist Church ($159k), Redlands Historical Museum Association Inc ($125k), The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition ($49k).
Does Buster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Buster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Buster Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inland Empire Community Foundation, The Paul D Ware Foundation, The Jack H Brown Family Foundation.
Where is Buster Family Foundation based?
Buster Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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