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Butkiewicz Family Foundation

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.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$273kHealth$123kHuman Services$70kFood & Nutrition$56kArts & Culture$48kAnimals$31kInternational$21kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tuscon Village Farm$25,000
Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS$20,000
Immokalee Foundation$17,500
Center on Halsted$15,000
Laces of Love Charitable Foundation$7,500
Alliance of Therapy Dogs$5,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,000
Kokandy Productions$5,000
Elyssa's Mission$5,000
Literacy Connects$5,000
Open Books$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The DInner Party Labs: $5k → 10%Open Books: $10k → 14%Open Books: $5k → 14%Handi-Dogs Inc: $2k → 15%Center on Halsted: $15k → 14%The Cradle Foundation: $12k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$372k · 12 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
43

Total granted

$372k
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

92%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +12%
  • TA
    THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +16%
  • TI
    THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • ES
    Evans Scholars Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • EN
    ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • BB
    BEN'S BELLS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
3
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
4
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
10
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
12
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy Tutoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%55%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
29/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $85,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCEvans Scholars Foundation — $25,000 · OtherEvans Scholars FoundationTuscon Village Farm — $25,000 · OtherTuscon Village FarmAmerican Farm School-USA — $21,000 · OtherAmerican Farm School-USATHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $15,000 · OtherBarrel of Monkeys (nka PlayMakers Laboratory) — $10,000 · OtherEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING — $16,250 · OtherEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLINGASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO — $15,000 · OtherTREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $10,000 · Other+20 more — $55,500 · Other+20 moreTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATIONBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $46,500 · EducationBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP …OPEN BOOKS LTD — $18,000 · EducationOPEN BOOKS LTDLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EducationLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOU…The American College — $10,000 · EducationThe American CollegeSIT STAY READ INC — $10,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INC+6 more — $14,000 · Education+6 moreERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesERIE NEIGHB…OPEN BOOKS — $15,000 · Human ServicesOPEN BOOKSCenter on Halsted — $15,000 · Human ServicesCenter on H…The Cradle Foundation — $12,000 · Human ServicesThe Cradle …THE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE DINNER …+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $64,900 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKA…+2 more — $2,250 · PhilanthropySaguaro City Music Theatre — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKOKANDY PRODUCTIONS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR ALL INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAudience Architects NFP dba See Chicago Dance — $2,000 · Arts & CultureBEN'S BELLS INC — $20,000 · HealthNOT ONE MORE VET INC — $17,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $3,250 · HealthLIVING STREETS ALLIANCE — $17,500 · Community Improvement
Other$287,750Education$176,000Human Services$70,000Philanthropy$67,150Arts & Culture$48,250Health$40,750Community Improvement$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $64,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $46,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSaguaro City Music Theatre — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD — $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING STREETS ALLIANCE — $17,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNOT ONE MORE VET INC — $17,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING — $16,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN BOOKS — $15,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Halsted — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe American College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIT STAY READ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN BANKS ACADEMY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF THERAPY DOGS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS FOR ALL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudience Architects NFP dba See Chicago Dance — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFelines Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDI-DOGS INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826CHI INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community TrustIL22× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · American Express Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Butkiewicz Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Butkiewicz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Butkiewicz Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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