California · Private foundation
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.
- $622k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $72,025
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $232k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Butterfly Equity Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $622k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $556k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $527k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $341k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $288k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Forward Inc | $313,525 | 7 | 0% |
| Social Justice Learning Institute | $309,684 | 5 | 2% |
| Hollywood Food Coalition | $253,216 | 5 | 1% |
| Alma Backyard Farm | $250,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Community Partners | $223,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Special Service for Groups Inc | $173,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $135,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $111,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $102,950 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Forward Inc | $313,525 | 7 | 0% |
| Social Justice Learning Institute | $309,684 | 5 | 2% |
| Hollywood Food Coalition | $253,216 | 5 | 1% |
| Alma Backyard Farm | $250,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Community Partners | $223,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Special Service for Groups Inc | $173,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $135,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $111,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $102,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Farm2People | $98,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Growing Communities Inc | $72,500 | 3 | 14% |
| SUPRSEED Inc | $45,500 | 2 | 9% |
| The Urban Food Initiative Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| With Love Community Programs | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern California Grantmakers | $4,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Angel Food | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sima Studios | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| La Compost | $2,783 | 2 | 0% |
| Safe Place for Youth Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Garden School Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inclusive Action for the City | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Butterfly Equity Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Butterfly Equity Foundation
- How much does Butterfly Equity Foundation give?
- Butterfly Equity Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $621,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Butterfly Equity Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (56%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Butterfly Equity Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Food Forward Inc ($314k), Social Justice Learning Institute ($310k), Hollywood Food Coalition ($253k).
- Does Butterfly Equity Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Butterfly Equity Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Butterfly Equity Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Community Partners, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is Butterfly Equity Foundation based?
- Butterfly Equity Foundation is based in CA.
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