Illinois · Private foundation
Butler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $451,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 92
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Butler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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 | 63 | $1.8M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.0M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $443,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Jackson Laboratory | $338,333 | 5 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association | $326,025 | 5 | 11% |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | $306,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $235,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $235,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $170,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dominican University | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $160,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $152,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 133 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Butler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Little Orchard Foundation · Garrett Family Foundation · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Butler Family Foundation
- How much does Butler Family Foundation give?
- Butler Family Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $1,832,008 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 92 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Butler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Health (19%), Education (17%).
- Who are Butler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Art Institute of Chicago ($443k), The Jackson Laboratory ($338k), Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association ($326k).
- Does Butler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Butler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Butler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, Clarks Fork Foundation.
- Where is Butler Family Foundation based?
- Butler Family Foundation is based in IL.
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