Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Buckley 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Buckley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $3.0M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $2.4M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $2.2M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc | $1,850,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Independence Mission Schools | $1,725,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lasalle College High School | $1,400,000 | 6 | n/a |
| El Education Inc | $1,070,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $925,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey New York High School | $910,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School | $500,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter Schoo | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Starfinder Foundation | $400,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc | $1,850,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Independence Mission Schools | $1,725,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lasalle College High School | $1,400,000 | 6 | n/a |
| El Education Inc | $1,070,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $925,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey New York High School | $910,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School | $500,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter Schoo | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Starfinder Foundation | $400,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Orion Military Scholarship Fund Inc | $375,000 | 4 | 80% |
| The American Adventure Service Corp | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Samaritan Ministries Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ad Prima Charter School | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Church of Saint Asaph | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Open Discourse Coalition | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Building 21 | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| De la Salle Academy | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Team Seymour Spouses Club | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Buckley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Buckley Foundation
- How much does The Buckley Foundation give?
- The Buckley Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $3,050,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Buckley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Recreation & Sports (4%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are The Buckley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc ($1.9M), Independence Mission Schools ($1.7M), Lasalle College High School ($1.4M).
- Does The Buckley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Buckley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Buckley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable, The Philadelphia Foundation, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Buckley Foundation based?
- The Buckley Foundation is based in PA.
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