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The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% 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
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$951
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEVERLY HOSPITAL$5,000
KENNEBUNKPORT CONSERVATION TRUST$1,000
GRAVES MEMORIAL LIBRARY$500
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$400
EMMANUEL CHURCH$250
BROOKWOOD$250
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$250
IRWA$250
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$250
TRUSTEES FOR RESERVATIONS$165
SALVATION ARMY SHOE FUND$100
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS$100
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 22 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
37

Total granted

$52k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SL
    SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +288%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +57%
  • RH
    RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FREDRICK THORNE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BH
    BEVERLY HOSPITAL PHILLOMER SCHOLAR
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • LT
    LOUIS T GRAVES--FRIENDS OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
2
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
6
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc

The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…

Arts & Culture
7
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
8
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association

Vision: to preserve, share and continue the american story mission: to be a welcoming, thriving, historic site and community resource that engages people of all backgrounds in our inclusive american story. values: - we value caroline…

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12
Uss Constitution Museum Inc

The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FREDRICK THORNE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $25,000 · OtherTHE FREDRICK THORNE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPBEVERLY HOSPITAL: $15,150 · OtherBEVERLY HOSPITALBEVERLY HOSPITAL PHILLOMER SCHOLAR: $5,000 · OtherBEVERLY HOSPITAL PHILLOMER SCHOLARIndividual grant recipient: $2,750 · OtherKEMS: $2,600 · Other+44 more: $21,180 · Other+44 moreTHOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyTHOMAS E S…SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterKennebunkport Conservation Trust: $4,200 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $475 · EnvironmentRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $1,250 · EducationLOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,250 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $250 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $250 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $150 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $1,600 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKENNEBUNKPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $180 · Arts & CultureLeadership Institute: $1,800 · Public Benefit
Other$71,680Philanthropy$9,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Environment$4,675Education$4,250Arts & Culture$3,230Public Benefit$1,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetLeadership Institute: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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 THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Kennebunkport Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
  • Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBUNKPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ARUNDEL CEMETERY CORPORATION ↗

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 Savin…Salem Five Charitable…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John H & Susan T Buck Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Maranyundo Initiative Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Supportive Living Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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