Funding search · EIN 474055028 · Elgin, IL

The Buckman Fun Filled Family Foundation

Name: The Buckman Fun Filled Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

76
grants reported: $547,313
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $2,322
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

cancer humanitarian research doctors medical purpsose eyersulen haile

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Cal'S Angels4 grants · $286,572
Hope Chicago4 grants · $37,875
Fekade Estiphanos1 grant · $25,000
Liv Like a Unicorn2 grants · $23,731
Guitars Over Guns Organization3 grants · $12,850
City Year3 grants · $11,000
Urban Initiatives3 grants · $10,432
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley1 grant · $10,309
Luries Children'S Hospital1 grant · $10,000
Project Cure Chicago1 grant · $10,000

Giving over time

$144,000

2022

$209,451

2023

$94,358

2024

$99,504

2025

Grant history

All 76 reported grants, largest first.

$152,000
Cal'S Angels · St Charles, IL · 2023
Cancer research
$100,422
Cal'S Angels · St Charles, IL · 2022
Cancer research
$25,000
Fekade Estiphanos · Elgin, IL · 2024
Car purchase for teme shiferaw and eyersulen haile
$22,500
Cal'S Angels · St Charles, IL · 2025
Cancer research
$17,500
Hope Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$13,731
Liv Like a Unicorn · Freehold, NJ · 2024
General purpose
$11,650
Cal'S Angels · St Charles, IL · 2024
Cancer research
$10,309
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Aurora, IL · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
Liv Like a Unicorn · Freehold, NJ · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Luries Children'S Hospital · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Jewish United Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Project Cure Chicago · Woodridge, IL · 2022
General purpose
$8,792
Hope Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$6,932
Urban Initiatives · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$6,583
Hope Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$5,200
Guitars Over Guns Organization · Miami, FL · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Embarc Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Guitars Over Guns Organization · Miami, FL · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Weish4ever · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Boys and Girls Club of Elgin · Elgin, IL · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Hope Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Immokalee Foundation · Naples, FL · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Shop With a Copy Lee County · Wever, IA · 2024
Holiday shopping for under privileged kids
$5,000
Zion Families - Pierre Charity · Miami, FL · 2024
Assist haiti refugees
$5,000
Beat the Streets Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Central Music Booster · Burlington, IL · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois · Skokie, IL · 2023
General purpose
$4,288
Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation · Parkland, FL · 2024
General purpsose
$3,750
Help One Now · Raleigh, NC · 2025
General purpose
$2,671
Help With Fires California · Redwood City, CA · 2022
General purpose
$2,650
Guitars Over Guns Organization · Miami, FL · 2023
General purpose
$2,620
Mind - Registered London England Charity · 2025
General purpose
$2,512
Keshet · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$2,500
Chicago Architectural Center · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$2,500
Urban Initiatives · Chicago, IL · 2025
General purpose
$2,365
Compassion International · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023
Humanitarian aid
$2,280
Compassion International · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022
Humanitarian aid
$2,000
Casa McHenry · Crystal Lake, IL · 2023
General purpose
$1,730
Milupa King · Elgin, IL · 2024
Doctors, medical assistance
$1,702
Compassion International · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
Humanitarian aid
$1,620
Boca School for Autism · Boca Raton, FL · 2024
General purpose
$1,600
Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation · Parkland, FL · 2025
General purpsose
$1,500
Mary Derosa Cancer Charity Nfp · Elgin, IL · 2025
General purpose
$1,500
Mary Derosa Cancer Charity Nfp · Elgin, IL · 2024
General purpose
$1,500
Mary Derosa Cancer Charity Nfp · Elgin, IL · 2023
General purpose
$1,132
Compassion International · Colorado Springs, CO · 2025
Humanitarian aid
$1,100
Les Turner Als Foundation · Skokie, IL · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Als United Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Don pokorney walk - general purpose
$1,000
Health Net Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General purpose
$1,000
Riley Children'S Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General purpose
$1,000
Urban Initiatives · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purpose
$1,000
Wounded Warrior · Jacksonville, FL · 2024
General purpose
$1,000
Cdbl · Elgin, IL · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Embarc Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Health Net Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General purpose
$1,000
Boys and Girls Club of Elgin · Elgin, IL · 2022
General purpose
$1,000
Cdbl · Elgin, IL · 2022
General purpose
$1,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$1,000
Friends of the Orphans Nph · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$1,000
Jewish Child & Family Services · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$1,000
Rising Lights Project · Elburn, IL · 2022
General purpose
$937
Andrew Weisner Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purpose
$510
Nausheen Din · Elgin, IL · 2025
Doctors, medical assistance
$500
Wayside Cross Ministries · Aurora, IL · 2023
General purpose
$500
Wayside Cross Ministries · Aurora, IL · 2022
General purpose
$300
Chs Booster · Burlington, IL · 2023
General purpose
$264
Chicago Parks Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$250
Kevin White Foundation · St Charles, IL · 2025
General purpose
$250
West Ridge · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$250
St Baldricks Foundation · Monrovia, CA · 2022
General purpose
$142
Stand Up To Cancer · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General purpose
$125
Ui Dance Marathon · Iowa City, IA · 2023
General purpose
$100
Dominican Literacy · Aurora, IL · 2023
General purpose
$46
Andrew Weisner Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose

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Similar grant size

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.