· Private foundation
Butler Parklands 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $170k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COBSCOOK SHORES INC | $1,673,941 |
| PENOBSCOT RIVER TRAILS INC | $777,602 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| MID-COAST CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| GREENUTICA | $6,000 |
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $5,000 |
| PEE DEE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| TUG HILL TOMORROW LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $4,680 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CSCOBSCOOK SHORES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $16M · revenue +96% · 100% of their budget
- WCWildlife Conservation Society4× · 2017–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +59%
- WMWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC4× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- BRBLACK RIVER CYPRESS PRESERVE LLCone grant, 2021 · $2.4M
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $251k · revenue +59%- TOTOWN OF KINGSTREEone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cobscook Shores Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 71 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 COBSCOOK SHORES INC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT RIVER TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER OUTDOOR EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BLACK RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds TUG HILL TOMORROW LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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 Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Marin Community 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 Parklands 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
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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