· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROGERS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NWA HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| NWA FOOD BANK | $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 |
| CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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, 2017 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Buck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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