Delaware · Private foundation
The Busfield 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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,319
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Busfield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $65k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $69k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $71k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $70k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferre Institute Inc | $27,435 | 8 | 1% |
| Sos Shelter Inc | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lourdes Hospital Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Health Services Foundation Inc | $19,371 | 8 | 0% |
| Deposit Foundation Inc | $18,142 | 8 | 7% |
| Deposit Community Park Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 26% |
| Team Phenomenal Hope | $10,600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton Inc | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($366k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Busfield Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Broome County Inc · Kenneth M Axtell Jr Foundation · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Busfield Foundation
- How much does The Busfield Foundation give?
- The Busfield Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $71,894 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Busfield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Health (20%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Busfield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ferre Institute Inc ($27k), Sos Shelter Inc ($20k), Lourdes Hospital Foundation Inc ($20k).
- Does The Busfield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Busfield 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 Busfield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc, George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc, United Way of Broome County Inc.
- Where is The Busfield Foundation based?
- The Busfield Foundation is based in DE.
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