· Private foundation
The Buddy Bostick Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $86,000 |
| WACO FAMILY MEDICINE | $52,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $27,822 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $27,550 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $24,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,250 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $18,000 |
| HAPPY HILL FARM | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $12,000 |
| WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | $11,750 |
| EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
161 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 128 since wound down; 17 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $74k · revenue +11%- EUEmory University2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%
THE TSTC FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TWTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 276 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Leola W and Charles H Hugg Trust Xxxxx8007 · CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc · Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945 · The Callaway Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Buddy Bostick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buddy Bostick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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