· Private foundation
Buster Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SET FREE CHURCH | $105,000 |
| IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CINDY HESS YMCA MEMORIAL PARK | $5,000 |
| GLOCAL OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY HOUSING COALITION | $2,500 |
| CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BLUE COLLAR ATHLETICS | $1,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF THE INLAND EMPIRE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- TCThe Coachella Valley Housing Coalition4× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +40%
- RCREDLANDS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +200%
- RCREDLANDS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LLLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $50k
- RHREDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +330%
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.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Friends of Tulare County is dedicated to promoting the safety, health, and well-being of all residents of Tulare County and strives to assist underrepresented and disadvantaged populations of all ethnicities and cultures through donations,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire
We exist to support our membership and community parnters to ensure acessible high-quality, and cost-effictve health services.
Sharing and Caring assists the poor and needy in the Tehachapi, California community through providing: 1) rent/shelter & utility payments; 2) food assistance; 3) holiday meals & holiday gifts for children & their families who would…
TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.
To provide quality early childhood education experiences and services for families in the greater redlands community, coupled with support for families as they develop parenting strategies, skills for independence and self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to promote an environment where members of our community can receive high quality care and services so they can maintain and be restored to good health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 69 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 REDLANDS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KID SWAP RESTORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of Redlands ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Stater Bros Charities ↗
- Who funds Glocal Outreach ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Redlands Police Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
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: 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
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 Buster 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.