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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 FY2025still arriving
154
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.5MEnvironment$2.9MAnimals$2.9MArts & Culture$2.7MHealth$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$961kOther$0
02FY2025 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $202k
  • $10k–50k97 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $715k
$10,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL$100,000
SMITH COLLEGE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
HISTORY CENTER OF LAKE FOREST - LAKE BUFF$75,000
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY$55,000
FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE$50,000
BOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION$50,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$50,000
HURON MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$50,000
DELTA WATERFOWL$50,000
COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION$45,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$40,000
SUGAR'S GIFT$40,000
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$35,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION: $10k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $50k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE: $20k → 15%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $55k → 9%WINDRUSH FARM: $5k → 10%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $36k → 12%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $55k → 9%WINDRUSH FARM: $5k → 10%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $25k → 12%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $10k → 19%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $25k → 9%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $20k → 12%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $10k → 19%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $10k → 9%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $20k → 12%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $5k → 19%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $10k → 12%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $5k → 19%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $5k → 19%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 7%LAKE FOREST - LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $33k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $30k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $30k → 14%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $10k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $5k → 8%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 14%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 14%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 14%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%MARKLUND: $15k → 14%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 204 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

204 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

204
68

Total granted

$20M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+5%

Still filing today

61%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $535k · revenue +37%
  • WU
    Walsh University Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $425k · revenue +3%
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTIT
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -80%
  • TD
    THE DIOCESE OF STEUBENVILLE
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • PF
    PHILHARMONIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Racine Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…

Animals
2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
9
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsEquine Therapy ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr22%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr22%50%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/192
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,167

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

179 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. 179 of the 302 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/179
Grantees still filing
127/179
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $595,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY — $530,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · OtherRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $360,000 · Other+108 more — $8,703,000 · Other+108 moreWalsh University Inc — $425,000 · EducationWalsh Universit…AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $422,500 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS …KENT SCHOOL — $347,500 · EducationKENT SCHOOLCollege of Lake County Foundation — $200,000 · EducationCollege of Lake…Eastern Illinois University Foundation — $195,000 · EducationEastern Illinoi…FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $177,500 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARS…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $145,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $125,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $105,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $105,000 · Education+13 more — $611,500 · Education+13 moreCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $535,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HOR…LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $330,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST…CAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $320,000 · EnvironmentCAROLINA HO…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $175,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLAND…THE MORTON ARBORETUM — $155,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON …CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $107,500 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $105,000 · EnvironmentBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS — $90,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $80,000 · Environment+7 more — $215,300 · Environment+7 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA F…ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Arts & CultureELAWA FAR…FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUS…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO T…STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $145,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWO…THE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ADLER…Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $120,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture Foundation — $85,000 · Arts & CultureMidwest Young Artists — $65,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $383,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreChicago Zoological Society — $310,000 · AnimalsChicago Z…LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $310,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN P…SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $280,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQU…Delta Waterfowl Foundation — $230,000 · AnimalsDelta Wat…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · AnimalsINTERNATI…OAKDALE EQUINE RESCUE — $105,000 · AnimalsOAKDALE E…+7 more — $230,500 · Animals+7 moreTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $426,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $165,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyGENEVA COMMUNITY CHEST — $80,000 · PhilanthropyTreasure Cay Community Foundation Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC — $161,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME — $130,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP — $60,000 · Human ServicesGorton Community Center — $55,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER — $38,000 · Human ServicesLAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $33,000 · Human Services+3 more — $65,000 · Human Services
Other$10,688,000Education$2,859,000Environment$2,112,800Arts & Culture$1,748,000Animals$1,665,500Philanthropy$981,000Human Services$772,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $535,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $426,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetWalsh University Inc — $425,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $422,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $360,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKENT SCHOOL — $347,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $330,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetChicago Zoological Society — $310,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $310,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff — $300,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $280,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation — $275,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $230,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of Lake County Foundation — $200,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEastern Illinois University Foundation — $195,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $195,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $177,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $175,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $175,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC — $170,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC — $170,000 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $170,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $165,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC — $161,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $155,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $150,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $145,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $145,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $140,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTIT — $140,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $140,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME — $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $125,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHuron Mountain Wildlife Foundation — $125,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $110,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $107,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
  • Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds College of Lake County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Illinois University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds BOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John and Kathleen Sch…Red Bird Hollow Found…Trustmark FoundationHunter Family Foundat…The Gorter Family Fou…The Grainger Foundati…Butler Family Foundat…Baxter International …The Lake County Commu…Clarks Fork FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Hedberg Foundation Inc
John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber PhilanthropyIL35.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Buchanan Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Buchanan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Buchanan Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 302 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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