· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $10,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $8,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| MERCURY ONE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ZION | $3,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MW | $3,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $3,000 |
| FAITH BIBLE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| HOGAR INFANTIL | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT NETWORK | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +10%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +134%
Mercy Ships International7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +114%
Funded once
JUDICIAL WATCH INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- CICAMBA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
Amnion's mission is to share the gospel of jesus christ and to protect and advocate for the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn, through the provision of abortion alternative services that empower mothers to choose life.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The Center For Medical Progress is dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances through investigative journalism and other educational activities that address contemporary bioethical issues impacting human dignity.…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAX AND BILLIE CLARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Buzbee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buzbee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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