· Private foundation
The Buck 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROGERS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NWA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| NWA HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| FIRST FRIENDS PRESCHOOL | $12,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON CO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
190 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 120 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RDROGERS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +92%
- NANORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +22%
- ONOzark Natural Science Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide services to low income individuals.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The northeast arkansas children's advocacy center provides a child appropriate, safe setting for children to tell their story of abuse.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rogers Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Avants Group Living Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 289 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Buck 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.