· Private foundation
Ga Jr and Kathryn M Buder Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
- $250k+1 grant · $768k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE WARREN BROWN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $768,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $52,782 |
| WEBSTER UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS | $12,600 |
| ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN VIOLIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $4,450 |
| ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN VIOLIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| DUO | $3,500 |
| BRENDAN'S FRIDAY BACKPACK INC | $3,500 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSN GRANT | $3,500 |
| MISSOURI WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $2,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC GRANT | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
4 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. 4 of the 15 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ga Jr and Kathryn M Buder Charitable 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 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.