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The Buchman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$139kEducation$130kArts & Culture$74kPhilanthropy$35kEnvironment$11kAnimals$4kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$759k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Temple Israel of Catskill$13,000
Temple Israel of Catskill$10,000
Temple Israel of Catskill$10,000
Chabbad of Ulster County$4,000
Chabad Lubavitch of Ulster County$4,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$1,000
Chabad Lubavitch of Ulster County$1,000
Jewish Federation of NENY$1,000
Ravensbeard Wildlife Center$500
Chabad of Columbia County$360
Chabbad of Woodstock$360
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Footsteps: $1k → 17%Footsteps: $500 → 17%Footsteps: $360 → 17%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$390k · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$390k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+153%

Still filing today

41%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +42%
  • JF
    Jewish Federation of Ulster County Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +13%
  • EU
    Ezra Uganda Assistance
    5× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HH
    Hamilton Hill Arts Center
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • AA
    AFL AM Friends of Libi Yahlom
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +153%

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
Jerusalem University College

Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…

International
2
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
3
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo Inc

Education opportunity for the jewish community

4
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
5
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
6
Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical College and Subsidary Machon Chana

Religious education

Education
7
Jcc Rockland Inc

JCC Rockland is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and continuity of Jewish life and to the preservation of Jewish heritage.

Human Services
8
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
9
American Jewish Historical Society

See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…

Arts & Culture
10
Rutgers Learning Network Inc

Conduct of Judaic studies programs and religious events

Arts & Culture
11
National Ramah Commission Inc

The national ramah commission (nrc) is the central coordinating, convening, and catalyzing body of the ramah camping movement. the nrc works with our movement's professional and lay leadership to preserve, strengthen, and build on the…

12
The Institute for Jewish Research and Publications Inc

None

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Footsteps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ezra Uganda Assistance. 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, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Temple Israel of Catskill — $167,050 · OtherTemple Israel of CatskillThe College of St Rose — $60,000 · OtherThe College of St RoseChabad Lubavitch of Ulster County — $23,688 · OtherChabad Lubavitch of Ulster CountyJewish Federation of Northeastern N — $16,900 · OtherJewish Federation of Northeastern NSivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch — $10,650 · Other+12 more — $19,925 · Other+12 moreRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $70,000 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc — $11,100 · PhilanthropyEzra Uganda Assistance — $5,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyRAVENSBEARD WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $4,000 · AnimalsSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOOTSTEPS INC — $1,860 · Human Services
Other$298,213Education$70,000Philanthropy$17,600Animals$4,000Arts & Culture$4,000Human Services$1,860

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc — $11,100 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetEzra Uganda Assistance — $5,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRAVENSBEARD WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $4,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $1,860 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Ulster County Inc
  • Who funds Ezra Uganda Assistance
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION
  • Who funds RAVENSBEARD WILDLIFE CENTER INC
  • Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS 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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Buchman Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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