Massachusetts · Private foundation
Butcher Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Butcher Family Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Generation Citizen Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $59k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Butcher Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $10k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Telling Room | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Robbins House Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Bike Connector Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Whole Woman's Health Alliance | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Trails | $3,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Through These Doors | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Edge Outdoors | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Acre Family Child Care Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Butcher Family Fund
- How much does Butcher Family Fund give?
- Butcher Family Fund reported 2 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Butcher Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (19%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Butcher Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Telling Room ($100k), Robbins House Inc ($6k), The Bike Connector Inc ($4k).
- Does Butcher Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Butcher Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Butcher Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Butcher Family Fund based?
- Butcher Family Fund is based in MA.
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