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Butterfly Equity Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $459k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FORWARD | $72,025 |
| HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION | $71,716 |
| ALMA BACKYARD FARM | $69,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $68,500 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE | $68,184 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $58,500 |
| SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS | $51,500 |
| FARM2PEOPLE | $41,500 |
| PROYECTO PASTORAL | $39,000 |
| URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| FOODCORPS INC | $21,500 |
| SUSTAINABLE AG AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS | $5,000 |
| WITH LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE AG AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS | $5,000 |
| SIMA STUDIOS | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- FFFOOD FORWARD INC7× · 2018–2024 · $314k · revenue +373%
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +9%
- HFHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION5× · 2020–2024 · $253k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $103k · revenue -28%
- SASUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
- VAVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +69%
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.
Food access la's mission is to build sustainable food systems and fresh food access, promote social and cultural activities that benefit low-to-moderate income residents of los angeles county, and support california small and mid-size…
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
The mission of veggielution is to connect people from diverse backgrounds through food and farming to build community in east san jose. our aim is to help our east san jose neighbors experience a richness of community life and health that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Social Justice Learning Institute. 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 16 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALMA BACKYARD FARM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Special Service for Groups Inc ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Farm2People ↗
- Who funds GROWING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SUPRSEED Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds SIMA STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds LA COMPOST ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Community Partners · The Annenberg Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold · The Angell Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment
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 Butterfly Equity Foundation 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.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% 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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