Texas · Private foundation
The Buzbee Foundation
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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Buzbee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $90k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $84k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $81k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $103k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace School of Theology | $84,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $74,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $34,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Focus on the Family | $29,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Mercy Ships International | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mercury One Inc | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Enhancement Network Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northshore Church | $9,500 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Buzbee Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Buzbee Foundation
- How much does The Buzbee Foundation give?
- The Buzbee Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Buzbee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (38%), International (18%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Buzbee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Grace School of Theology ($84k), Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc ($75k), Samaritan's Purse ($74k).
- Does The Buzbee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Buzbee 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 Buzbee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is The Buzbee Foundation based?
- The Buzbee Foundation is based in TX.
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