· Private foundation
The Buckelew Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEB TIAGWAD MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| NJ HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FULFILL FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE | $1,000 |
| EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $1,000 |
| MERCY CENTER NJ | $800 |
| 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND | $700 |
| LARC SCHOOL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $250 |
| MONMOUTH COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA | $250 |
| THE LESNIAK INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN LEADERSHIP | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
61 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- GCGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +13%
- TCTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +8%
- CBCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC4× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +246%
- OCOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Rwj barnabas health, inc. operates as the parent entity of a tax-exempt multi-entity healthcare system. the organization coordinates, supervises and ensures the continuation and improvement of the quality of healthcare services in a cost…
The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…
The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…
The mutual protection and benefit of all its members.
Saint barnabas medical center, a non-sectarian healthcare institution, will pursue the delivery of primary, secondary, and tertiary health services while consistently meeting the highest quality of care and meeting our customers'…
To deliver safe, quality, cost effective healthcare services, providing access and value to the community through a unified effort that meets individual needs with dignity and respect. through its dynamic, strategic partnerships, robert…
It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
59 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. 59 of the 176 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
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.
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LARC SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE LARC NORCROSS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds MANASQUAN PBA LOCAL #284 ↗
- Who funds THE ALCOVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN CENTER AT THE JERSEY SHORE ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 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.
Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Citta Foundation Inc · The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank 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 Buckelew 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.
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Family Resource Network Inc — 47% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Larc School Inc D/B/a the Larc Norcross School — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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