New York · Private foundation
The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $106M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 182
- Grants FY2025
- 162
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 123 to 162
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 167 | $103M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 162 | $45M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 148 | $37M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 135 | $31M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 123 | $27M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achievement First Inc | $20,975,000 | 5 | 12% |
| The Mind Trust Inc | $11,425,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Kipp Foundation | $10,800,000 | 4 | 7% |
| 50can Inc | $9,970,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Elevate Charter Schools Inc | $8,885,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Capital Preparatory Schools Inc | $8,500,000 | 5 | 34% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $7,950,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $7,200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| TEACHorg Inc | $6,695,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $6,200,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 162 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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · 50can Inc · New Schools Fund
How this is measured
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About The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc
- How much does The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc give?
- The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc reported 182 grants totaling $106,347,044 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 123 and 162 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Environment (11%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Achievement First Inc ($21M), The Mind Trust Inc ($11M), Kipp Foundation ($11M).
- Does The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc 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 Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Land Trust Alliance Inc, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc based?
- The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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