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The Buller Foundation

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.

$776k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$1.2MHealth$392kPhilanthropy$275kReligion$259kScience & Tech$132kEducation$63kArts & Culture$57kCivil Rights$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $322k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$1,800
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COOPER FAMILY FOUNDATIONMILTON$250,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$218,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$103,600
COLEL CHABAD$36,000
JEWISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$25,000
STAND WITH US$18,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$18,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$11,250
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$10,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BINYAMIN FUND INC$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION$10,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,600
AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY$3,600
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 20%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 20%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 20%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%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

NH
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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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 55 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
25

Total granted

$2.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

64%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +40%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +53%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD OF EAST BOCA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHABAD ROSLYN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • HR
    HURRICANE RELIEF FUND - IRMA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Sherit Isroel
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
The Jerusalem Connection
4
University of Judaism Foundation
5
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Haron Dahan Fund for Bar-Ilan University in Israel

The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.

Education
11
Physicians for Palestine
Health
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Echo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFire and Emergency ServicesPrivate Charitable Foundati…Community Support ServicesK-12 Education & Youth Serv…Business and Professional A…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%70%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,698

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 93 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)
56/56
Grantees still filing
28/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $834,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $121,320 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $118,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $116,200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $48,600 · International+11 more — $94,542 · International+11 moreTHE COOPER FAMILY FOUNDATIONMILTON — $250,000 · OtherTHE COOPER FAMILY FOUNDATIONMILT…COLEL CHABAD — $133,200 · OtherCOLEL CHABADCHABAD OF ROSLYN INC — $40,400 · OtherCHABAD OF ROSLYN INCCHABAD OF EAST BOCA INC — $25,000 · OtherJEWISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH — $25,000 · Other+52 more — $232,126 · Other+52 moreTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Social ScienceFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $53,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $3,020 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $40,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $15,550 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $5,600 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · Health+6 more — $6,760 · HealthHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $19,800 · ReligionFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $1,800 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN — $1,620 · Religion
International$1,332,662Other$705,726Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Social Science$80,000Arts & Culture$74,020Health$71,410Religion$23,220

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $834,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $121,320 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $118,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $116,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $48,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $23,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $19,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $18,360 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $16,718 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $16,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $15,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $14,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC — $14,182 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $7,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $3,860 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $2,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJawonio Foundation Inc — $1,980 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN — $1,620 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ECHO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC — $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER FOR ACHIEVEMENT CO LIFE'S WORC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN HAYES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
  • Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER
  • Who funds DOROT INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Buller Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Buller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Buller Foundation 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 93 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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