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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 FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - TWIN CITIES$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE (WELLSTONE)$75,000
LA FAMILY HOUSING$50,000
APPETITE FOR CHANGE$50,000
GROVES LEARNING ORGANIZATION$50,000
MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE$30,000
BRIDGING INC$30,000
ST PAUL FOUNDATION SHARING FUND$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MN$25,000
SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC$25,000
COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS CA$25,000
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MN$20,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND MN$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $25k → 10%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS CA: $25k → 10%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $20k → 10%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 11%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 10%BLACK MEN TEACH: $20k → 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 10%BLACK MEN TEACH: $20k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $20k → 11%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $8k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $8k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $8k → 11%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
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 65 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
16

Total granted

$6.4M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $355k · revenue +97%
  • BI
    Bridging Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +29%
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • DS
    Downtown Streets Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +50%
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
7
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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12
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Viviennes Joy 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

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
45/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - TWIN CITIES: $850,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - TWIN CITIESPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $335,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODEDUCARE OF AZ: $225,000 · OtherBridging Inc: $215,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $180,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MN: $165,000 · Other+52 more: $2,517,944 · Other+52 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $605,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CI…SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MI…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS…VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $60,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE S…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMM…+5 more: $59,495 · Philanthropy+5 moreAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCoalition On Homelessness: $90,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $70,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men Teach: $60,000 · Human ServicesThink Small: $37,500 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW: $22,500 · Human ServicesHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE HOUSING INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Community Land Trust: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationGROVES ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBolder Options: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $355,000 · Community ImprovementSmall Press Traffic Literary Arts Center: $115,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $22,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR NEW MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGaleria Studio 24: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,487,944Philanthropy$1,004,495Human Services$430,000Housing & Shelter$405,000Education$360,000Community Improvement$355,000Arts & Culture$345,000

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

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 budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
  • Who funds PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY 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 Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Minnesota Community F…The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Mortenson Family Foun…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Pohlad Family Foundat…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buuck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buuck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report 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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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