Nebraska · Private foundation
Thomas D Buckley Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $555k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $427k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 31% of the organizations Thomas D Buckley Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $426k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $437k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $444k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chappell Senior Center | $48,500 | 3 | 65% |
| Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries | $45,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Way Out West Community Theatre Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sedgwick County Memorial Hospital | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chappell Museum Association Inc | $12,625 | 3 | n/a |
| Regional West Garden County | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Regional West Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kimball Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adopt-A-Dog Animal Rescue | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chappell Senior Center | $48,500 | 3 | 65% |
| Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries | $45,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Way Out West Community Theatre Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sedgwick County Memorial Hospital | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chappell Museum Association Inc | $12,625 | 3 | n/a |
| Regional West Garden County | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Regional West Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kimball Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adopt-A-Dog Animal Rescue | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kid's Plus Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Succeed Inc | $9,178 | 3 | n/a |
| Sandhills Crisis Intervention | $9,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Western Ne Community College | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Michaels Catholic Church | $3,800 | 1 | n/a |
| South Platte Early Learning Programs | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Siena Francis House | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas D Buckley Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 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 Thomas D Buckley Trust
- How much does Thomas D Buckley Trust give?
- Thomas D Buckley Trust reported 69 itemized grants totaling $427,244, out of $555,494 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Thomas D Buckley Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (8%), Public Benefit (8%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Thomas D Buckley Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Chappell Senior Center ($49k), Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries ($46k), Way Out West Community Theatre Inc ($20k).
- Does Thomas D Buckley Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas D Buckley Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas D Buckley Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia Smith Charitable Trust, Nebraska Community Foundation, Union Pacific Foundation.
- Where is Thomas D Buckley Trust based?
- Thomas D Buckley Trust is based in NE.
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