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The Buhrmaster Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Buhrmaster Family Foundation Inc

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.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$138kEnvironment$53kArts & Culture$30kHuman Services$26kHealth$26kReligion$17kInternational$14kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$641k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LAKE GEORGE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FUND$7,500
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$3,000
NORTH COUNTRY MINISTRIES$3,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES$2,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
LAKE GEORGE ASSOCIATION$2,000
THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY$2,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES$1,600
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND$1,500
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY$1,500
SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN$1,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$1,000
DOUBLE H RANCH$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $500 → 11%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $3k → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $2k → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $2k → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $2k → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $2k → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $625 → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $500 → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $500 → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $1k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $750 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $500 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $500 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $500 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $200 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $100 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $100 → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $250 → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $100 → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 47 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
15

Total granted

$363k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+81%

Still filing today

51%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +25%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • PC
    PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +42%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -1%
  • GG
    GLOBAL GIVING (KENYA CONTACT LEARNING)
    one grant, 2020 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Caromont Health

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
8
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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9
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare

Greater lakes mental healthcare empowers hope through compassion and connection with those we serve. empowers relief through effective evidence based practices that promote skills, resilience & recovery by building upon strengths &…

Health
11
Garnet Health

To maintain an integrated health delivery system of providers and hospitals resulting in improved health for our community by providing exceptional healthcare to our patients.

Health
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sudbury Community Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $55,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANYThe Fund for Lake George Inc: $40,000 · OtherThe Fund for Lake George IncIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE GEORGE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FUND: $28,000 · OtherLAKE GEORGE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FUNDDARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $15,750 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUNDNORTH COUNTRY MINISTRIES: $12,000 · Other+34 more: $44,600 · Other+34 moreRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $41,500 · EducationRensselaer Polytec…BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $12,250 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC: $5,550 · EducationGREEN MOUNTAIN VAL…+3 more: $2,100 · EducationTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $12,680 · Human ServicesCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC: $11,225 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1,900 · Human Services+3 more: $1,350 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,800 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $3,600 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $1,350 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 · Health+3 more: $1,000 · HealthThe Lake George Association Inc: $12,300 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,450 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $400 · InternationalHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $3,950 · Food & NutritionSUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3,250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$230,350Education$61,400Human Services$27,155Health$26,350Arts & Culture$12,300International$8,600Food & Nutrition$7,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $41,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for Lake George Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $12,680 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc: $12,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $12,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC: $11,225 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC: $5,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $4,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $3,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBolton Emergency Medical Services Inc: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODNOW LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF HOPE RESIDENCE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake George Land Conservancy Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds The Fund for Lake George Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗

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.

The Norman and Marian…Hoopes Family Foundat…RJKB Family Charitabl…Bob & Ginger Cannon B…Global Village Charit…Larsen FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…
The Norman and Marian Wolgin Family Charitable FoundationPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norman and Marian Wolgin Family Charitable Foundation · Hoopes Family Foundation Inc · RJKB Family Charitable Foundation · Bob & Ginger Cannon Bailey Foundation Inc · Global Village Charitable Trust · Larsen Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Buhrmaster Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buhrmaster Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Christ Child Society of Naples Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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