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Terry and Lynne Buckner Family Foundation at a glance

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Terry and Lynne Buckner Family Foundation

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.

$283k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$185kHuman Services$125kArts & Culture$73kYouth Development$65kEducation$63kInternational$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH$100,000
UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION$75,000
TUACAHN CENTER OF THE ARTS$50,000
UTAH'S FIRST LADY FOUNDATION$30,000
JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,500
HELP HOPE LIVE$10,000
RON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION: $75k → 8%UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$413k · 4 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$413k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue -21%
  • UR
    UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue 0%
  • UF
    UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • WS
    WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • AC
    A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
  • WW
    WILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
2
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
3
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
4
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
5
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
6
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
7
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
8
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
9
Project Read

Building bright futures through literacy, digital skills, math, and conversation.

Education
10
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
11
Utah Afterschool Network

Uan is a catalyst for building strong, safe, and healthy afterschool/out- of-school time programs to support youth, families, and communities. uan has three main objectives. first, to create a sustainable structure of statewide, regional,…

Youth Development
12
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahs First Lady Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jordan Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $175,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $3,953 · OtherUTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION: $125,000 · Human ServicesUTAH REFUGEE CONNECTIONA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $22,623 · Human ServicesA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATIONTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $52,500 · Arts & CultureTUACAHN CENTER …WILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWILFORD WOODRUF…UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTAHS FIRST …Jordan Education Foundation: $12,500 · EducationHELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,000 · HealthRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$228,953Human Services$147,623Arts & Culture$72,500Youth Development$60,000Education$12,500Health$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $175,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION: $125,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $22,623 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJordan Education Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…Sorenson Legacy Found…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Terry and Lynne Buckner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry and Lynne Buckner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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