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The Buhl Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.7M
Granted FY2017
37
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k20 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.4M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION OF CHARLES EVANS HOUSIN$4,803,765
CYGNET FOUNDATION$1,205,863
ACE PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS$378,450
BROOKS SCHOOL$100,000
APEXART$30,000
ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$24,000
GABRIEL'S ANGEL FOUNDATION$20,000
METROPOLITAIN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK$18,730
NY ACADEMY OF ART$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
SELFHELP$10,000
NYJTL$10,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY$10,000
COALITION FOR A SECURE DRIVER'S LIC$10,000
LONDON CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%QUANADA: $8k → 13%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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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New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
3
Theatre of the Oppressed Nyc Inc

Tonyc works through partnerships with social service organizations and city agencies to create theatre troupes with community members who face pressing social, economic, health, and human rights injustices.

Arts & Culture
4
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
5
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
6
The American Playwriting Foundation
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Theaterworks Inc

Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…

Arts & Culture
8
The Actors Center Inc

Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Women in Film

Promotion of equal rights for women in the entertainment industry. to serve as a repository for information on qualified women in the entertainment industry.

Arts & Culture
10
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
11
The Actors' Fund of America

The entertainment community fund is a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. (continued in schedule o).

Membership Benefit
12
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Caresequity Fights Aids Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 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)
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Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASSOCIATION OF CHARLES EVANS HOUSIN — $4,803,765 · OtherASSOCIATION OF CHARLES EVANS HOUSINACE PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS — $378,450 · OtherACE PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS+19 more — $201,230 · OtherTHE CYGNET FOUNDATION INC ATTN RAYMOND MERRITT — $1,205,863 · EducationTHE CYGNET FOUNDATION…BROOKS SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOLQUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEET — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePARITY PRODUCTIONS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCITYARTS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWORKS AND PROCESS INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $4,000 · AnimalsFOR OUR FRIENDS INC — $800 · AnimalsST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,200 · Health
Other$5,383,445Education$1,305,863Human Services$16,000Arts & Culture$12,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Animals$4,800Food & Nutrition$2,500Health$1,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKS SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONDON CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetQUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FORWARD INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARITY PRODUCTIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCITYARTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOR OUR FRIENDS INC — $800 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Association of Charles Evans Housing FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Charles Evans Housing Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Buhl Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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How do I get to The Buhl Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Buhl Foundation Inc 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 37 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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