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Butler Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Health$79kInternational$52kYouth Development$38kReligion$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHuman Services$28kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
BULLDOG FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC$5,000
FIVE 4 FIVE$5,000
MARJAREE MASON CENTER$5,000
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK$5,000
VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$2,000
LANNA FOUNDATION$2,000
ORBIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF CENTRAL$2,000
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%MARJOREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
MO
TN
NC
DC

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$328k · 25 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
5

Total granted

$328k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

52%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +163%
  • VC
    VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEW COVENANT CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • AA
    ABLE ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • FC
    FRESNO COUNTY PINK HEALS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k

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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Saint Agnes Medical Center

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Young Men's Christian Association

The burbank community ymca (burbank y) is committed to strengthening the foundation of our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we work within our community to ensure that everyone, regardless of…

Human Services
5
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
11
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Mickey Cox Elementary Parent Club. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,956

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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIVE 4 FIVE — $30,000 · OtherFIVE 4 FIVEFIVE 4 FIVE (COMMUNITY MED FOUNDAT) — $25,000 · OtherFIVE 4 FIVE (COMMUNITY MED FOUNDAT)NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherNEW COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCHNEW COVENANT CHURCH — $18,000 · OtherNEW COVENANT CHURCHRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF — $16,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFTHE NAVIGATORS — $12,000 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSVFW FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherLANNA FOUNDATION — $12,000 · OtherLANNA FOUNDATIONCompassion International Incorporated — $6,000 · OtherFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc — $7,000 · Other+10 more — $24,500 · Other+10 moreVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE — $26,000 · HealthVALLEY CHILDRE…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $9,750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER U…CHILD'S PLAY — $4,000 · HealthCHILD'S PLAYST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…+2 more — $2,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMARJAREE MAS…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $28,000 · ReligionSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationTHE BULLDOG FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $100 · EducationCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $24,852 · Food & NutritionFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$177,500Health$45,750Human Services$40,000Religion$28,000Education$25,100Food & Nutrition$24,852Housing & Shelter$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $24,852 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANNA FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BULLDOG FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD'S PLAY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMickey Cox Elementary Parent Club — $100 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE
  • Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK
  • Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LANNA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds CHILD'S PLAY
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds Mickey Cox Elementary Parent Club

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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Butler Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Butler Family Foundation Inc 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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