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Buuck Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 56
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Buuck Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving30$1.0M30%
FY202328$940k4%
FY202235$1.1M20%
FY202140$610k10%
FY202047$705k17%
FY201951$725k0%
FY201856$1.0M11%
FY201755$984kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$775kEducation$680kFood & Nutrition$650kHealth$635kEnvironment$540kArts & Culture$510kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way$605,00020%
Neighborhood House$355,00071%
Bridging Inc$215,00080%
La Family Housing Corporation$180,00060%
Appetite for Change Inc$150,00032%
University of Minnesota Foundation$150,00030%
The Cookie Cart$130,00081%
Salvation Army$120,0007n/a
Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College$115,00071%
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center$115,000719%
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All grantees of Buuck Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way$605,00020%
Neighborhood House$355,00071%
Bridging Inc$215,00080%
La Family Housing Corporation$180,00060%
Appetite for Change Inc$150,00032%
University of Minnesota Foundation$150,00030%
The Cookie Cart$130,00081%
Salvation Army$120,0007n/a
Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College$115,00071%
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center$115,000719%
Second Harvest Heartland$110,00070%
Housing in Action Inc$95,00081%
Coalition On Homelessness$90,00052%
Great River Greening$87,50080%
Alliance Housing Inc$75,00081%
People Serving People Inc$75,00050%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$75,00080%
Bridging Az Furniture Bank$70,00054%
Cornerstone$67,50086%
Black Men Teach$60,00031%
Valley of the Sun United Way$60,00030%
Jeremiah Program$60,00040%
Greater Minnesota Housing Fund$55,00040%
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association$55,00050%
Groves Academy$50,00010%
Guthrie Theater Foundation$50,00050%
City Year Inc$50,00010%
Downtown Streets Inc$50,00010%
Oakland Community Land Trust$45,00032%
VEAP Inc$45,00060%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$42,50050%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$40,00030%
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society$40,00040%
McDowell Sonoran Conservancy$37,50052%
Think Small$37,50050%
San Francisco Food Bank$37,50010%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$37,50010%
Minnesota Historical Society$35,00040%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$30,00050%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$25,00010%
Remote Area Medical$25,00010%
Minnesota Orchestral Association$22,50030%
Way to Grow$22,50030%
Ready Set Smile Pa$20,00041%
San Francisco State University Foundation$20,00010%
Upper Midwest Bleeding Disorders Allianc$15,00031%
Center for New Music San Francisco Inc$15,0001n/a
Bolder Options$15,00021%
United Service Organizations Inc$12,50030%
Galeria Studio 24$12,50028%
Coffee House Press Inc$11,50021%
True Friends$10,00010%
A a Arts$10,00029%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$10,00020%
Sunny Hollow Montessori$10,00020%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$7,50020%
Viviennes Joy Foundation$7,50015%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc$5,00010%
Commune Foundation$5,00015%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$1,99510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Twin Cities United Way: $605,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood House: $355,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBridging Inc: $215,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLa Family Housing Corporation: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAppetite for Change Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $130,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetPrison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College: $115,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSmall Press Traffic Literary Arts Center: $115,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHousing in Action Inc: $95,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition On Homelessness: $90,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGreat River Greening: $87,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance Housing Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPeople Serving People Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Az Furniture Bank: $70,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCornerstone: $67,500 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetValley of the Sun United Way: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJeremiah Program: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Minnesota Housing Fund: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCharcot-Marie-Tooth Association: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGroves Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGuthrie Theater Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCity Year Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOakland Community Land Trust: $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVEAP Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMcDowell Sonoran Conservancy: $37,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThink Small: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Historical Society: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemote Area Medical: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Orchestral Association: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWay to Grow: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetReady Set Smile Pa: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSan Francisco State University Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUpper Midwest Bleeding Disorders Allianc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBolder Options: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGaleria Studio 24: $12,500 over 2y, 7.8% 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 58.

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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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN29.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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.

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How do I get to Buuck Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Buuck 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.

About Buuck Family Foundation

How much does Buuck Family Foundation give?
Buuck Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,005,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Buuck Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (28%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Buuck Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($605k), Neighborhood House ($355k), Bridging Inc ($215k).
Does Buuck Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Buuck Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Buuck Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Buuck Family Foundation based?
Buuck Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 97 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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