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Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$235k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$964k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
FY20234$235k50%
FY20225$145k40%
FY20217$119k86%
FY20202$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$400kReligion$40kYouth Development$30kCivil Rights$25kHealth$19kHousing & Shelter$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends University$210,00020%
Central Christian Academy$115,0003n/a
Midamerica Nazarene University$50,00020%
Young Life$30,00020%
Kansans For Life Inc$25,00012%
Leaven Inc$25,000150%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$18,82510%
Newspring Church$5,0001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

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.

Servant FoundationKS12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation

How much does Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation give?
Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $235,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (76%), Religion (8%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Friends University ($210k), Central Christian Academy ($115k), Midamerica Nazarene University ($50k).
Does Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tim and Gail Buchanan Family 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 Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation based?
Tim and Gail Buchanan Family Foundation is based in KS.

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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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