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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.

$622k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MCommunity Improvement$362kCivil Rights$310kHuman Services$179kHealth$170kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $459k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WITH LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS$5,000
SUSTAINABLE AG AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS$5,000
SUSTAINABLE AG AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS$5,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $39k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $36k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $52k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $30k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $46k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $20k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $41k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $11k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $33k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $3k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 15 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+41%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $314k · revenue +373%
  • SJ
    SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +9%
  • HF
    HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $253k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $103k · revenue -1%
  • SA
    SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • VA
    VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +69%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sustainable Economic Enterprises of La Dba Food Access Los Angeles

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…

Community Improvement
2
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

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…

Education
3
Fresh Approach

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 & Nutrition
4
Extrafood

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Equitable Food Initiative

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.

Human Services
6
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
9
Active San Gabriel Valley

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.

Community Improvement
10
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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11
Foodwise Community

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.

—
12
Veggielution

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD FORWARD INC: $313,525 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD INCALMA BACKYARD FARM: $250,500 · Food & NutritionALMA BACKYARD FARMFOODCORPS INC: $111,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INCFarm2People: $98,000 · Food & NutritionFarm2PeopleSUPRSEED Inc: $45,500 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $40,000 · Food & NutritionHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $253,216 · OtherHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALI…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $102,950 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL…SUSTAINABLE AG AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS: $27,500 · OtherSUSTAINABLE AG AND F…FOODCORPS INC: $21,500 · Other+5 more: $18,483 · OtherSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $173,500 · Human ServicesSpecial Service…Proyecto Pastoral: $135,500 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastor…+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $309,684 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL JUSTICE…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $223,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …+1 more: $300 · Community ImprovementVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $165,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthGROWING COMMUNITIES INC: $72,500 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $3,000 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$858,525Other$423,649Human Services$314,500Housing & Shelter$309,684Community Improvement$223,300Health$168,000Environment$75,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $313,525 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $309,684 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $253,216 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM: $250,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $223,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $173,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $135,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $111,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $102,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm2People: $98,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetGROWING COMMUNITIES INC: $72,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSUPRSEED Inc: $45,500 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $4,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMA STUDIOS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA COMPOST: $2,783 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

California Community …Community PartnersThe Annenberg Foundat…ImpactassetsincThe James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…The Sheila Dave & She…The Angell FoundationCedars-Sinai Medical …Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…
California Community FoundationCA23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Butterfly Equity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butterfly Equity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Butterfly Equity Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Butterfly Equity 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.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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