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Deborah Buck 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.

$285k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Deborah Buck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$285k31%
FY202313$262k38%
FY202214$217k29%
FY202114$257k43%
FY202012$102k50%
FY201912$100kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$95kEnvironment$83kReligion$15kYouth Development$5kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CT
CO
MD
NM
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deborah Buck Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSkowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetThe Brooklyn Rail Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPen and Brushinc: $124,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetTrinity College: $81,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClyfford Still Museum: $47,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOn This Spot NYC Stories of Pioneering Women Artists Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Sculpture Center Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetScoa Inc: $40,052 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHeckscher Museum: $36,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNew Art Publications Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOceana Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSite Santa Fe: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Art Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMadison Square Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $13,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject for Empty Space Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMid Atlantic Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art: $3,087 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBric Arts Media Bklyn Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Hill Neighbors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008

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.

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How do I get to Deborah Buck Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deborah Buck 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.

About Deborah Buck Foundation

How much does Deborah Buck Foundation give?
Deborah Buck Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $284,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Deborah Buck Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (8%), Environment (7%).
Who are Deborah Buck Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc ($155k), The Brooklyn Rail Inc ($125k), Pen and Brushinc ($125k).
Does Deborah Buck Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Deborah Buck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Deborah Buck Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Deborah Buck Foundation based?
Deborah Buck Foundation is based in NY.

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 37 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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