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The Bucy 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.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$115kEducation$79kRecreation & Sports$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$4kHealth$3kInternational$1k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$336k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
MAGELLAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$2,500
RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL INC$1,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RAZOM INC: $1k → 17%UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%MAGELLAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%DUSTINS GREEN HOUSE MEMORIAL INC: $10k → 12%MOREHEAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: $500 → 17%RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL INC: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $3k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%ACTIVATE GOOD INC: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of The Bucy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Bucy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Unc Free Speech Alliance Inc

Unc alumni free speech alliance, inc. supports and defends free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity at university of north carolina, chapel hill.

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
6
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
7
The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Foundation Inc

To aid, support, and promote teaching, research, and service in the various educational, scientific, scholarly, professional, artistic, and creative endeavors of the university of north carolina at chapel hill.

Education
8
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
9
The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education
10
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
11
Queens University of Charlotte

Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.

Education
12
Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc

To aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, educational, research, and extension in the college of engineering at north carolina state university

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dustins Green House Memorial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF RALEIGH — $114,506 · OtherCITY OF RALEIGHTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC+13 more — $27,600 · Other+13 moreUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCE…NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLIN…MAGELLAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationMAGELLAN EDUC…MOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $5,000 · EducationMOREHEAD-CAIN…ACTIVATE GOOD INC — $4,000 · EducationACTIVATE GOOD…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationUNC HEALTH FO…+2 more — $1,500 · EducationDustins Green House Memorial Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyRAZOM INC — $1,000 · International
Other$192,106Recreation & Sports$50,000Education$33,000Philanthropy$10,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDustins Green House Memorial Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetMAGELLAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVATE GOOD INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bucy 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Bucy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bucy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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