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Butters Family 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,125
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$458k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Butters Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$68k29%
FY202411$68k9%
FY202324$79k58%
FY20224$34k25%
FY20217$19k43%
FY20206$4k50%
FY201915$19k40%
FY201821$27k67%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$216kArts & Culture$85kHuman Services$37kInternational$35kPhilanthropy$20kEnvironment$18kHealth$17kScience & Tech$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
CO
VA
DE
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Butters Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston College$120,00060%
The International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc$35,00013%
Canine Partners for Life$32,00020%
Alexander Twilight Academy Inc$23,00021%
Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc$13,05050%
Stroud Water Research Center$10,25040%
Halcyon Foundation$8,35031%
Calling All Crows Inc$7,00031%
The Foote School Association Incorporated$6,00010%
Search and Care Inc$5,20050%
Two Chairs Inc$5,0001n/a
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art$5,00010%
The Harris School Inc$5,00010%
Claflin University$5,00010%
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc$3,80040%
The Bridge Fund of New York Inc$3,66020%
The Battery Conservancy Inc$3,50050%
New York City Ballet Inc$3,25020%
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church$3,2252n/a
National Public Radio Inc$3,00010%
Historic Odessa Foundation$2,30030%
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Inc$2,00010%
Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc$2,00010%
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc$1,00010%
Moving Mountains Inc$1,00011%
The Garden Club of America$1,00010%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$1,00010%
The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc$1,00010%
Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
Delaware Humane Association$1,00010%
Wilmington Friends School Inc$7753n/a
The Horticultural Society of New York$75010%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation$50010%
564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation$50010%
Stratford Hall$40010%
Zaanha Fund Inc$35012%
Delaware Wild Lands Inc$30010%
Sweet Briar Institute$30020%
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc$25010%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Butters Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Boston College: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCanine Partners for Life: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlexander Twilight Academy Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $13,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetStroud Water Research Center: $10,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHalcyon Foundation: $8,350 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCalling All Crows Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Foote School Association Incorporated: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSearch and Care Inc: $5,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harris School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClaflin University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Center for Horticulture Inc: $3,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridge Fund of New York Inc: $3,660 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Battery Conservancy Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Odessa Foundation: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetConnecticut Childrens Museum Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFresh Youth Initiatives Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoving Mountains Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Garden Club of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUntermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Humane Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Horticultural Society of New York: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStratford Hall: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZaanha Fund Inc: $350 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDelaware Wild Lands Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Briar Institute: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $150 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 37.

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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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Butters Family Foundation Inc

How much does Butters Family Foundation Inc give?
Butters Family Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $67,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Butters Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Butters Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston College ($120k), The International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc ($35k), Canine Partners for Life ($32k).
Does Butters Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Butters Family Foundation Inc 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 Butters Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Ederic Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust.
Where is Butters Family Foundation Inc based?
Butters Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 62 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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