Texas · Nonprofit
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,132,653 to it, the largest being E DICK SLAUGHTER TRUST ($6,266,142). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Buckner International does
Mission
To provide management and administrative support for tax-exempt related entities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided management and administrative support for services provided by related tax-exempt entities. Services provided by related entities included:- care and housing for vulnerable children and families; - care and housing for senior adults; - care and housing assistance in parenting, family planning and adoptive care; - assistance to families in crisis
$26,751,865 spent$8,598,672 earned by the program83% of program spendingProvided the following services:- domestic and international assistance and humanitarian aid to vulnerable children and families;- camp buckner, which primarily serves vulnerable children from buckner foster care and adoption, single parent families from buckner family pathways, clients in our family support services and transition programs, as well as youth ministry groups, schools, and churches; and- the 27 & oak stores offer items made by artisans that buckner serves internationally as well as convenience items to accommodate attendees due to the camp's remote location.
$5,539,493 spentof which $6,333,550 as grants$2,986,094 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,291,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $28M (+71%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
75% of BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Albert Reyes
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr Walid Saade
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $567k → $3.1M.
19 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $132M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Buckner Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL raised.
From the IRS filings of BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 30% · 2019 55% · 2020 47% · 2021 46% · 2022 23% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
41% of BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Agency for International Development$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Rio Grande Children's Home Foundation · exempt
- Buckner Foundation · exempt
- Rio Grande Children's Home · exempt
- Buckner Children & Family Services Inc · exempt
- Buckner Retirement Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL?
- BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,132,653 to it, the largest being E DICK SLAUGHTER TRUST ($6,266,142). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $15,132,653 in grants to BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL?
- E DICK SLAUGHTER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,266,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 110 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing