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The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$250
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Total assets, FY2023
$951
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$9k46%
FY202211$12k36%
FY202124$25k63%
FY20205$2k40%
FY20199$6k67%
FY201811$7k64%
FY201725$38kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$39kEducation$31kEnvironment$5kArts & Culture$5kScience & Tech$3kPublic Benefit$2kRecreation & Sports$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSupportive Living Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKennebunkport Conservation Trust: $4,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPeabody Essex Museum Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Massachusetts Inc: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRumsey Hall School Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLouis T Graves Memorial Public Library: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinchester Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiss Porter's School Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKennebunkport Historical Society: $450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArundel Cemetery Corporation: $450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBrookwood School Incorporated: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Historical Society: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George and Barbara Bush Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maranyundo Initiative Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManchester-By-The-Sea Museum Inc: $80 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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.

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About The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation

How much does The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation give?
The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $8,615 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (31%), Environment (5%).
Who are The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Thomas E Smith Foundation Inc ($9k), Supportive Living Inc ($6k), Kennebunkport Conservation Trust ($4k).
Does The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable 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 John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation based?
The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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