Illinois · Private foundation
The Buchanan 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 154
- Grants FY2025
- 156
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 107 to 156
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Buchanan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 152 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 156 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 144 | $2.1M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 144 | $2.8M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 137 | $2.6M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 128 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 117 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $2.4M | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $535,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $500,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Walsh University Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Avon Old Farms School Inc | $422,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $360,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kent School | $347,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $330,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Carolina Horse Park Foundation | $320,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $310,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $310,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 189 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Buchanan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 169 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Butler Family Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Buchanan Family Foundation
- How much does The Buchanan Family Foundation give?
- The Buchanan Family Foundation reported 154 grants totaling $2,510,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 107 and 156 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Buchanan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Environment (14%), Animals (13%).
- Who are The Buchanan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Horticultural Society ($535k), Trustees of Purdue University ($500k), Walsh University Inc ($425k).
- Does The Buchanan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Buchanan Family 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 The Buchanan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, Red Bird Hollow Foundation, Trustmark Foundation.
- Where is The Buchanan Family Foundation based?
- The Buchanan Family Foundation is based in IL.
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