Missouri · Public charity
The Buddy Fund
To serve local at-risk youth in partnership with dedicated schools, recreation, and youth organizations by providing new sports and recreation equipment to create opportunities for development of their physical and mental health, confidence and character, teamwork and respect for others, and academic expectations and personal…
- $230k
- Granted FY2023
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $6k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $696k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Buddy Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $5k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Fusz Soccer Club | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Isaac Bruce Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope | $4,396 | 2 | 0% |
| East St Louis Community Tennis Association | $3,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Evangelical Children's Home | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fox Ice Hockey Club | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Center-Marygrove | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Ignites St Louis | $700 | 1 | n/a |
| Lift for Life Academy Inc | $500 | 4 | 0% |
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Pott Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable
How this is measured
About The Buddy Fund
- How much does The Buddy Fund give?
- The Buddy Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $229,872 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Buddy Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (83%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are The Buddy Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Lou Fusz Soccer Club ($12k), Isaac Bruce Foundation ($5k), Boys Hope Girls Hope ($4k).
- Does The Buddy Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Buddy Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is The Buddy Fund based?
- The Buddy Fund is based in MO.
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