How much does The Buller Foundation give?

The Buller Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $776,470 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Buller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (48%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are The Buller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Birthright Israel Foundation ($834k), The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($150k), Colel Chabad ($133k).

Does The Buller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Buller 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 Buller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The Buller Foundation based?

The Buller Foundation is based in NY.

The Buller Foundation

The Buller Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $57k
$10k–50k9 grants · $148k
$50k–250k2 grants · $322k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$1,800

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH	$18,000
STAND WITH US	$18,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL	$11,250
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$10,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION	$10,000
THE BINYAMIN FUND INC	$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION	$10,000
AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY	$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$3,600
FRIENDS OF CHABAD	$3,600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 55 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

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

Total granted

$2.0M

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

-13%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther

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

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
LC
LI CARES
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Jerusalem Connection

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University of Judaism Foundation

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American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

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…

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

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

Physicians for Palestine

Health

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

29/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$1,332,662Other$705,726Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Social Science$80,000Arts & Culture$74,020Health$71,410Religion$23,220

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

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.

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.

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

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 Buller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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.

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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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home