· Private foundation
The Bucklen 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Union Colony Children's Music Acade | $4,800 |
| Evangelical Free Church of Eaton | $2,760 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Agfinity | $2,000 |
| Weld Legacy Foundation | $2,000 |
| High Plains Honor Flight | $1,375 |
| CRS Gives Back | $1,250 |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $1,080 |
| Dayspring Christian Academy | $1,000 |
| Centennial Rotary Club | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UCUNION COLONY CHILDRENS MUSIC ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +76%
- JHJUDI'S HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +59%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WFWELD FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
- CRCentennial Rotaryone grant, 2018 · $960
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.
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The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health &…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The mission of the organization is to conduct research and analysis of conditions affecting the Colorado state economy and promote policies that strengthen the state economy.
Great education colorado harnesses the power of grassroots activism and diverse, inclusive networks to guarantee that public schools in every colorado community are welcoming and adequately, equitably, and sustainably funded
CSAs mission is to inspire successful careers in the aerospace industry with an academically rigorous project-based curriculum that prepares students for advanced secondary and post-secondary education.
The weld community foundation promotes philanthropy to build resources, develops partnerships, and provides leadership that will be of lasting benefit to our communities.
Empower students to design and lead their own postsecondary and career pathways with the context of an exciting Science, Technology, Environmental, Agricultural and System Design thinking learning environment.
To enhance economic opportunities with data-driven strategies that inform community and workforce development initiatives.
Educational support for military families that have borne the cost of freedom. Particularly those who have experienced the loss of a family member or have one that has been seriously wounded in the defense of our freedoms,
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
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 25 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
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.
- Who funds UNION COLONY CHILDRENS MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRS GIVES BACK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds High Plains Honor Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HERO EXPEDITIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds GREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bucklen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bucklen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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