· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| WEST CHOP PRESERVATION FUND | $10,000 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER | $7,000 |
| TWO CHAIRS INC | $5,000 |
| CALLING ALL CROWS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $3,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $2,500 |
| MADISON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,125 |
| CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NY | $1,275 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| HEALTH ADVOCATES | $1,000 |
| WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $300 |
| WINTERTHUR GARDEN & LANDSCAPE SOCIETY | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +70%- ATALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +135%
- HFHALCYON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +387%
- TFTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +22%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +144%
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 62 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALLING ALL CROWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Two Chairs Inc ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE HARRIS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Moving Mountains Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Fair Play Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Rencourt Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Scooter-Boxie Foundation Inc · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · Sharp Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation 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 Butters Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc — 20% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Historic Odessa Foundation — 0% 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.