· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $810k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500,000 |
| ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $350,000 |
| CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL | $350,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSIONS SCHOOLS | $325,000 |
| GIRARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| MERCY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SISTERS OF MERCY | $200,000 |
| ORION MILITARY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $150,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC | $150,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| EL EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF ST ASAPH | $60,000 |
| OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION | $50,000 |
| BUILDING 21 | $45,000 |
| TEAM SEYMOUR SPOUSES CLUB | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 76% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
- EEEL EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $910k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TAThe American Adventure Service Corpone grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue -4%
- CSCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +62%
- APAD PRIMA CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +19%
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.
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…
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.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
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.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
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…
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,…
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.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 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 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 Orion Military Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Adventure Service Corp ↗
- 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 OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING 21 ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Buckley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buckley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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