· Private foundation
Butler County Bar Association Foundation
The mission of the BUTLER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is to promote access to justice, legal education, and charity in accordance with the mission and goals of the butler county bar association.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CTR | $15,000 |
| ALEXANDRA'S LIGHT OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| BUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDU FDN | $3,000 |
| SUMMIT SCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NLNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +75%
- BCBUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue -6%
- TLTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue -9%
Funded once
- BHBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -65%
- COCOMMUNITY ONE PUBLIC SAFETYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF SAXONBURG POLICE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide the citizens of butler county with various library services, including lending books, research information, public use of periodicals, and computer services.
Public library services
The Center provides quality mental health services that empower individuals, families & communities of Butler County to shape promising futures.
To provide a multi-disciplinary response to child victims of various types of abuse and neglect.
Promote and provide the prompt, compassionate and caring medicolegal and evidentiary examination and treatment of sexual assault patients.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Provides day care and twenty-four hour live-in facilities for developmental disabled adults.
To be the first choice for caring, comprehensive and well-coordinated behavioral health care services.
Address needs of homeless families in butler county ohio.
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
Public lending library
The foundation will nurture relationships that will create opportunities for stakeholders to make a difference in the lives of butler students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Butler County Alliance for Children and the most unlike its peers is Victim Outreach Intervention Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds GRACE YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Health Clinic of Butler County Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Inspired Hearts and Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Robins Home Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Seneca Valley Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Sedwick Charitable Foundation · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Neal Martin Christensen Foundation · The Jay & Linda Sedwick Foundation · United Way of Butler County Inc · Snyder Charitable Foundation David E Snyder Trustee · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Butler County Bar Association 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.
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.
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