South Dakota · Private foundation
The Buettner Family 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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $107k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Buettner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $129k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $141k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $142k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $129k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $64k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $101k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $85k | 5% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $123,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra | $105,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Graland Country Day School | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pikes Peak United Way | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Care and Share Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Denver Academy Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| CASA of the Pikes Peak Region | $12,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($355k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Buettner Family Foundation 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: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Denver Foundation · H Chase Stone Trust B Xxxxx5009 · The Marson Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Buettner Family Foundation
- How much does The Buettner Family Foundation give?
- The Buettner Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $129,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Buettner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Animals (15%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Buettner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shedd Aquarium Society ($123k), Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra ($105k), Graland Country Day School ($35k).
- Does The Buettner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Buettner Family Foundation 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 Buettner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation.
- Where is The Buettner Family Foundation based?
- The Buettner Family Foundation is based in SD.
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