Buckner Foundation

Analysis

Buckner Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Buckner Foundation reported income of $48.5m and spending of $44.4m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $29.4m to $48.5m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Buckner Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Table to Table Inc ($48.4m), The Riverwoods Company at Exeter New Hampshire ($48.6m) and Mather Investments NFP ($48.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $510.7m against liabilities of $4.4m, net assets of $506.3m.