Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Jack Buncher Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 247
- Grants FY2024
- 187
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,224
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 156 to 187
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $186M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations The Jack Buncher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 200 | $21M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 187 | $20M | 58% |
| FY2018 | 156 | $15M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | $1,335,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Allegheny County Library Association | $1,326,004 | 3 | 3% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $1,170,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh | $576,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Eye and Ear Foundation | $425,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation Inc | $245,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Variety the Childrens Charity | $225,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh | $218,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Jcc Global USA Inc | $210,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc | $205,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 203 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 137 recipients with no EIN on record ($43M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jack Buncher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 191 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Jack Buncher Foundation
- How much does The Jack Buncher Foundation give?
- The Jack Buncher Foundation reported 247 grants totaling $20,972,366 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 156 and 187 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Jack Buncher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (11%), Philanthropy (7%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Jack Buncher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ($1.3M), Allegheny County Library Association ($1.3M), Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($1.2M).
- Does The Jack Buncher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jack Buncher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jack Buncher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
- Where is The Jack Buncher Foundation based?
- The Jack Buncher Foundation is based in PA.
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