· Private foundation
David W Buck Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| AMERICARES | $15,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D - MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE | $5,000 |
| LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS - FUND FOR LADEW | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $2,500 |
| GBMC FOUNDATION (GBMC PHILANTHROPY DEPT) | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE | $2,500 |
| HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT | $2,000 |
| MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE | $1,500 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +50%- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +57%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $8k
- WCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN - COVID-19 RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $5k
- WCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN - HURRICANE DORIANone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hereford Volunteer Fire Company Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 123 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COCKEYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds STAR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kenneth S Battye Charitable Trust · Campbell Foundation Inc
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 David W Buck Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Hampstead Volunteer Fire and Hose Company NO1 — 68% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Star Community Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.