New Jersey · Private foundation
The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc
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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $596k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 29 | $39k | 79% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $44k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $36k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $43k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $40k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $48k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $57k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $55k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $36,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $13,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $12,360 | 2 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $9,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Wild Tomorrow Fund | $9,700 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $7,990 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Aid Society | $6,003 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jazz Gallery | $5,750 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 130 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc
- How much does The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc give?
- The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $39,411 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Arts & Culture (12%), International (12%).
- Who are The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($37k), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($35k), The Actors' Fund of America ($13k).
- Does The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc 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 Buddy Poole Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc based?
- The Buddy Poole Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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