· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE | $5,000 |
| LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS - FUND FOR LADEW | $5,000 |
| LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D - MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| GBMC FOUNDATION (GBMC PHILANTHROPY DEPT) | $2,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE | $2,500 |
| HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT | $2,000 |
| MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE | $1,500 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -59% for those 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
How this is measured
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 (HELENE AND MILTON)one grant, 2024 · $5k
- AHAMERICARES - HURRIANE MICHAEL DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
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Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
How this is measured
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 COCKEYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David W Buck Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David W Buck Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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