Bucky Foundation

Analysis

Bucky Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Norman, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bucky Foundation reported income of $112k and spending of $103k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $53k to $112k (+112%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bucky Foundation sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Three Rivers Helping Hands Community Foundation ($112k), Access to Recovery Inc ($112k) and Vinton-Shellsburg Community School District Foundation ($112k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $10k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $10k.