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Butte Creek Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
38
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
38 to 55
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Butte Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202338$1.1M16%
FY202238$280k37%
FY202141$164k56%
FY202055$159kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$453kYouth Development$91kHuman Services$54kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$8kArts & Culture$8kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
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CO
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Francisco Park Conservancy$1,010,000268%
The Salvation Army$40,0003n/a
Chico Community Scholarship Association$28,00042%
Listening Together$6,000225%
Rise Up Foundation$2,50012%
Capital Public Radio Fdba Kxpr/Kxjz Inc$2,00020%
Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection$2,0001n/a
Utah Rivers Council Inc$1,50020%
The Ocean Foundation$1,50010%
Cpi Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Show all 28 grantees

Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($638k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Butte Creek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy: $1,010,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetChico Community Scholarship Association: $28,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetListening Together: $6,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetRise Up Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCapital Public Radio Fdba Kxpr/Kxjz Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Rivers Council Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Partners: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalouf Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCache Humane Society: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Green Urban Lunch Box: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoyful Heart Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place Utah Formerly Known as Child & Family Support Center of Cache: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Chico: $395 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLymphoma Research Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $145 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Ifit Health & Fitness FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ifit Health & Fitness Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Butte Creek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Butte Creek 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.

About Butte Creek Foundation

How much does Butte Creek Foundation give?
Butte Creek Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,138,674 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Butte Creek Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (58%), Education (26%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Butte Creek Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Francisco Park Conservancy ($1.0M), The Salvation Army ($40k), Chico Community Scholarship Association ($28k).
Does Butte Creek Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Butte Creek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Butte Creek Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ifit Health & Fitness Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Butte Creek Foundation based?
Butte Creek Foundation is based in CA.

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 99 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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