· Public charity
Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation
The leonard and beryl buck foundation is a charitable trust that was established in 1979 to distribute funds for non-profit charitable, religious or educational activities in marin county, california.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+20 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING | $7,675,008 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO INC | $3,000,000 |
| ALCOHOL JUSTICE | $1,535,002 |
| CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER AND NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP OF MARIN (CVNL) | $1,200,000 |
| BUCK INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION | $1,023,334 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| EDEN HOUSING INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN | $1,000,000 |
| MARIN WILDFIRE PREVENTION AUTHORITY | $728,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN | $666,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC | $500,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| GREENBELT ALLIANCE (PEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE INC) | $450,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $443,100 |
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, $47.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +58% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
156 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 130 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING3× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +64%
- 1D10000 DEGREES8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +175%
- MCMarin Child Care Council8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +159% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- MAMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue -39%
- ECEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
- MHMIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1.6M · revenue +97%
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.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
How this is measured
219 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. 219 of the 252 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Marin Child Care Council ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds EDEN HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Vivalon ↗
- Who funds The Multicultural Center of Marin ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
- Who funds PARENT SERVICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds San Geronimo Valley Community Center ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Extrafood · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · The West Marin Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tipping Point Community · United Way of the Bay Area
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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