Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation
EIN 23-6257115 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 57 grants · $1.9m
Who it funds most
12 of its 56 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202502349349101000
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202641179349101764 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202502349349101000 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202441269349101944 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202343079349101864 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202211189349101206 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202101199349100830 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation made 135 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $4.4m as filed.
- Grants
- 135
- Total, as filed
- $4.4m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| ST JAMES SCHOOL | 5 | $425.0k |
| BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA | 3 | $300.0k |
| PROJECT HOME | 3 | $250.0k |
| A BOOK A DAY | 3 | $225.0k |
| COLLECTIVE CLIMB | 2 | $200.0k |
| INN DWELLING INC | 2 | $150.0k |
| GATEWAY HORSEWORKS | 2 | $125.0k |
| INN DWELLING | 2 | $120.0k |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | 2 | $120.0k |
| READING ALLOWED | 1 | $100.0k |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | 1 | $100.0k |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT | 1 | $100.0k |
| JUBILEE SCHOOL | 7 | $99.8k |
| TREE HOUSE BOOKS | 3 | $70.0k |
| PHILADELPHIA FUTURES | 2 | $60.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | $751.1k |
| 2021 | 22 | $789.9k |
| 2022 | 12 | $640.3k |
| 2023 | 15 | $698.9k |
| 2024 | 27 | $808.3k |
| 2025 | 36 | $757.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-236257115. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified