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Butterfield Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$79kEducation$48kHuman Services$37kCrime & Legal$36kHealth$16kFood & Nutrition$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$653k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
CASA MONROE$12,500
ART FOR THE SOUL$5,000
ACADEMY CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,950
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 (FY19–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CASA MONROE: $13k → 15%CASA MONROE: $10k → 15%MERCY'S GATE: $3k → 9%MERCY'S GATE: $2k → 9%MERCY'S GATE: $500 → 9%TESSA: $1k → 9%TESSA: $500 → 9%TESSA: $500 → 9%TRI-LAKES CARES: $5k → 9%TRI-LAKES CARES: $5k → 9%TRI-LAKES CARES: $4k → 9%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Butterfield Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Butterfield Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$311k · 15 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$311k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+114%

Still filing today

60%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • CM
    Crossfire Ministries Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +102%
  • TC
    TRI-LAKES CARES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +138%
  • Care and Share Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • HM
    HUGH MARTIN MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
El Paso Area Christian Counseling Service

Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.

Human Services
2
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

3
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

4
Clear Creek County Advocates

Assistance is provided to victims of assault, battered victims, and victims of other forms of physical, sexual and mental abuse. Advocacy, education and direct 24 hour crisis intervention and services are provided in the Clear Creek County…

Human Services
5
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
6
Child Crisis Center of El Paso Inc

The mission of the Child Crisis Center is to protect children, newborn through fifteen years of age, from abuse/neglect by providing temporary short-term emergency shelter and family support services.

Human Services
7
Pueblo Rape Crisis Services Inc

Juniper SoCO provides comprehensive healing resources to survivors of sexual assault / intimate partner violence, equipping the community to prevent future sexual violence, & fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes wellness…

Health
8
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
9
Called to Peace Ministries Inc

Called To Peace Ministries exists to provide a compassionate, comprehensive, and Christ-centered response to those impacted by domestic abuse.

Religion
10
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
11
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
12
Crisis Center for South Suburbia

The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence while addressing the societal issues contributing…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bangladesh Christian Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACADEMY CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $67,950 · OtherACADEMY CHRISTIAN CHURCHACADEMY CHRISTIAN — $47,980 · OtherACADEMY CHRISTIANADF — $12,000 · OtherART FOR THE SOUL — $10,000 · Other+19 more — $44,650 · Other+19 moreCASA MONROE INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesCASA MONROE I…TRI-LAKES CARES — $14,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CAR…Mercy's Gate — $5,000 · Human ServicesMercy's GateTESSA — $2,000 · Human ServicesCrossfire Ministries Inc — $14,500 · ReligionStableStrides — $2,000 · ReligionBANGLADESH CHRISTIAN MISSION — $1,500 · ReligionCare and Share Inc — $13,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalLife Network — $7,000 · Health
Other$272,580Human Services$43,500Religion$18,000Food & Nutrition$13,000Philanthropy$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Health$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASA MONROE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCrossfire Ministries Inc — $14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES — $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLife Network — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy's Gate — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S HOME CORPORATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTESSA — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStableStrides — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBANGLADESH CHRISTIAN MISSION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEL PASO COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CASA MONROE INC
  • Who funds Crossfire Ministries Inc
  • Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES
  • Who funds Care and Share Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC
  • Who funds Life Network
  • Who funds Mercy's Gate
  • Who funds NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE
  • Who funds SARAH'S HOME CORPORATION
  • Who funds TESSA
  • Who funds StableStrides
  • Who funds BANGLADESH CHRISTIAN MISSION
  • Who funds EL PASO COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE 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.

El Pomar FoundationCO21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Marson Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gazette Charities · The Nutrition Camp School Foundaton Inc

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 Butterfield 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Butterfield Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Butterfield 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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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