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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Kokandy Productions$5,000
Literacy Connects$5,000
Open Books$5,000
Elyssa's Mission$5,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,000
Alliance of Therapy Dogs$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
AZ
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+4%

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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +28%
  • 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
  • SC
    Saguaro City Music Theatre
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • BB
    BEN'S BELLS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -20%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $85,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCTuscon Village Farm: $25,000 · OtherTuscon Village FarmEvans Scholars Foundation: $25,000 · OtherEvans Scholars FoundationAmerican 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 & CultureKOKANDY PRODUCTIONS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR ALL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSaguaro City Music Theatre: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNOT ONE MORE VET INC: $17,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIVING STREETS ALLIANCE: $17,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING: $16,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOPEN BOOKS: $15,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetSIT STAY READ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR ALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF THERAPY DOGS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826CHI INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Chicago Community…Community Foundation …American Express Foun…John D and Catherine …The Allstate Foundati…Donley Foundation-Ud …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Dr Scholl FoundationGaylord and Dorothy D…Arizona Community Fou…Dollar General Litera…The Blackbaud Giving …
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Butkiewicz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butkiewicz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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