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Buxton Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2019
14
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182019.

Human Services$7kReligion$6kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kHealth$200Housing & Shelter$200Public Benefit$100Other$0
02FY2019 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN MISSION$4,500
CHURCH OF THE SERVANT$3,700
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GUNNISION VALLEY$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WORLD NEIGHBORS$1,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - TULSA$500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$200
MERCY SHIPS$100
CITY RESCUE MISSION$100
OPERATION HOMEFRONT$100
PROJECT HOPE$100
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
NJ
CO
VA
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 3 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$7k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+78%

Still filing today

33%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • THE URBAN MISSION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue -5%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k
  • CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $200 · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • CB
    CRESTED BUTTE CENTER FOR THE ART
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2018 · $300

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
5
Uossm Usa

Uossm usas mission is to provide impartial lifesaving support, medical relief and access to quality healthcare and mental health services to people and communities affected by crisis.

Health
6
Bloodwater Mission Inc

Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…

Religion
7
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
8
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
9
Globus Relief

The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.

International
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Presbyterian Medical Services

Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.

Health
12
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Urban Mission 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE URBAN MISSION INC — $5,500 · OtherTHE URBAN MISSION INCCHURCH OF THE SERVANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $3,700 · OtherCHURCH OF THE SERVANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSALVATION ARMY — $1,200 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHCRESTED BUTTE CENTER FOR THE ART — $1,000 · OtherCRESTED BUTTE CENTER FOR THE ARTIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+4 more — $1,100 · Other+4 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY — $2,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…WORLD NEIGHBORS INC — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $100 · InternationalWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 · Human ServicesCITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $200 · Human ServicesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $100 · HealthOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $100 · Community ImprovementJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100 · Public Benefit
Other$15,500Philanthropy$2,000International$1,300Human Services$400Health$100Community Improvement$100Public Benefit$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE URBAN MISSION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBORS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Buxton 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 31%
  • World Neighbors Inc46% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation31% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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