· Private foundation
The Buckley Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $450,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSIONS SCHOOLS | $425,000 |
| ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $375,000 |
| THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE SERVICE CORPS | $350,000 |
| LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC | $100,000 |
| ORION MILITARY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $100,000 |
| STARFINDER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 81% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k 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
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +25%
- EEEL EDUCATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $970k · revenue +42%
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $560k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CSCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +62%
- APAD PRIMA CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +19%
- RSRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -38%
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.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The american dream school's mission is to develop academic excellence in both spanish and english, preparing students in grades 6-12 to excel in college.
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Our mission is simple: we aim to guide children to realize their inherent greatness. from a very young age, we reinforce to our scholars that they are agents of change. we guide scholars to embody the values of scholarship, excellence,…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.
The mission of intrinsic schools is to create a revolutionary new school model in order to 1) prepare all students for postsecondary success and world-changing endeavors; and 2) provide the education community with a roadmap to sustainable…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ad Prima Charter School and the most unlike its peers is The American Adventure Service Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO ↗
- Who funds Starfinder Foundation ↗
- Who funds The American Adventure Service Corp ↗
- Who funds Orion Military Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AD PRIMA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
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: The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Buckley 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.