How much did CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

insttheatreballetconcertsseasonopera

2020

due covidchamber operagoldconcertsclassical tahoe

2021

cosi fanfan tuttepremieregoldmusic festivalsconcertsopera

2022

music festivalscarmen

2023

theatremusic festivalsinstallmentopera

2024

febfestivalpremiereinstallmentseason

2025

performancesarts programmingbroken wingsliveoperaseason

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $3k
$10k–50k7 grants · $157k
$50k–250k8 grants · $635k
$250k+1 grant · $750k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$750,000
CLASSICAL TAHOE$150,000
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA$125,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$100,000
SIERRA NEVADA BALLET$60,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET SAB$50,000
CARLISLE FLOYD CENTENNIAL$50,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$50,000
PBS RENO$50,000
WEST EDGE OPERA$32,000
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$30,000
NOE VALLEY CHAMBER MUSIC$25,000
ANCHORAGE OPERA$25,000
ORPHEUS PDX$25,000
TAHOE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TOCCATA$10,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $900k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.6M · 28 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+105%

Still filing today

64%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

NM
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
4× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +199%
CT
CLASSICAL TAHOE
6× · 2019–2024 · $900k · revenue +136%
AP
AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA
2× · 2020–2021 · $329k · revenue +211% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

SF
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
one grant, 2023 · $250k
LT
LAKE TAHOE SUMMERFEST
one grant, 2018 · $100k
SF
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSICgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +127%

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.

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Classical Voice

SFCV's mission is to engage audiences, artists, and arts organizations, and forge meaningful connections through music journalism.

Arts & Culture

San Diego Opera Association

The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…

Arts & Culture

Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Opera Company

See part iii and schedule othe los angeles opera company (la opera) is a non-profit entity organized to provide an opportunity for all to enjoy the rich emotional and cultural experience of opera.

Arts & Culture

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.

Arts & Culture

Utah Festival Opera Company

Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

Foundation for Modern Opera

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Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

Santa Fe Concert Association

Performance santa fe (psf) is dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to santa fe and providing excellent arts education to the youth in the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reno Philharmonic Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valhalla Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,538

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,349,500Other$3,142,400Human Services$900,000Education$50,000

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.

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.

Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Five Arts Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Shell USA Company 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 organisation CAROL FRANC BUCK 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260683783 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Carol Franc Buck Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carol Franc Buck Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carol Franc Buck Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carol Franc Buck Foundation?

More from the funding graph