Skip to content
Butler County Bar Association Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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 2024.

Human Services$34kCrime & Legal$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEducation$11kHealth$11kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$8kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CTR$15,000
BUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$5,000
ALEXANDRA'S LIGHT OF HOPE$5,000
BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDU FDN$3,000
SUMMIT SCHOOL INC$2,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%INSPIRED HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $3k → 9%GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES: $2k → 9%VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CTR: $15k → 9%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.
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 4 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$41k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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
    BUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue -6%
  • NL
    NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +75%
  • TL
    THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • BH
    BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -65%
  • CO
    COMMUNITY ONE PUBLIC SAFETY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SAXONBURG POLICE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Butler Area Public Library

To provide the citizens of butler county with various library services, including lending books, research information, public use of periodicals, and computer services.

—
2
Butler County Federated Library System

Public library services

Education
3
South Central Mental Health Center Inc

The Center provides quality mental health services that empower individuals, families & communities of Butler County to shape promising futures.

Health
4
Butler County Children's Advocacy Center Inc

To provide a multi-disciplinary response to child victims of various types of abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
5
Sane of Butler County

Promote and provide the prompt, compassionate and caring medicolegal and evidentiary examination and treatment of sexual assault patients.

Crime & Legal
6
Penn Hills Library

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.

Education
7
Butler Valley Inc

Provides day care and twenty-four hour live-in facilities for developmental disabled adults.

Health
8
Butler Behavioral Health Services

To be the first choice for caring, comprehensive and well-coordinated behavioral health care services.

—
9
Family Promise of Butler County Inc

Address needs of homeless families in butler county ohio.

Housing & Shelter
10
Summit Legal Aid

Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.

Crime & Legal
11
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

—
12
Butler Community College Foundation

The foundation will nurture relationships that will create opportunities for stakeholders to make a difference in the lives of butler students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Butler County Alliance for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 31 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALEXANDRA S LIGHT OF HOPE: $5,000 · OtherALEXANDRA S LIGHT OF HOPEBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,000 · OtherBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEMCOMMUNITY ONE PUBLIC SAFETY: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ONE PUBLIC SAFETYFRIENDS OF SAXONBURG POLICE DEPT: $4,800 · OtherFRIENDS OF SAXONBURG POLICE DEPTBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF WESTE: $4,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF WESTEBUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDU FDN: $3,000 · OtherBUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDU FDNFISHING FOR MEMORIES INC: $3,000 · OtherFISHING FOR MEMORIES INCBUTLER CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherBUTLER CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTCOMMUNITY CARE CONNECTIONS INC: $2,000 · OtherPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $2,000 · OtherLIFE CHOICES INC: $1,650 · OtherSENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE: $1,500 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVA…BUTLER COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherBUTLER COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $500 · OtherVICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM OUTREACH INTERVE…THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATI…Inspired Hearts and Hands Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesInspired Hearts and Han…GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES: $1,500 · Human ServicesGLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERV…BUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUTLER COUNTY ALL…GRACE YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRACE YOUTH AND F…NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORHOOD …PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $4,000 · EducationPROSPECT C…SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $2,500 · EducationSOUTH BUTL…THE SUMMIT SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationTHE SUMMIT…SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · EducationSLIPPERY R…SLIPPERY ROCK COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $1,400 · EducationSLIPPERY R…Seneca Valley Foundation: $500 · EducationRobins Home Inc: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Health Clinic of Butler County Inc: $4,000 · Health
Other$44,950Human Services$26,500Youth Development$19,000Crime & Legal$15,000Education$12,150Housing & Shelter$4,500Health$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $4,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCommunity Health Clinic of Butler County Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetInspired Hearts and Hands Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CONNECTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CHOICES INC: $1,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $1,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSeneca Valley Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 United Way of Sou…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Sedwick Charitabl…Concordia Lutheran Mi…The Cigna Group Found…Neal Martin Christens…The Jay & Linda Sedwi…United Way of Butler …Snyder Charitable Fou…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Tickets for Kids Foun…Baird Foundation Inc
The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Butler County Bar Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butler County Bar Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Butler County Bar Association Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Butler County Bar Association 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Butler County Bar Association’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home