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Buttgenbach Foundation at a glance

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Buttgenbach 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$177kCivil Rights$50kEducation$29kInternational$17k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $25k → 10%LUX ART INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $15k → 14%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $7k → 17%RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $14k → 20%NATIONAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $7k → 10%LUX ART INSTITUTE: $13k → 11%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 17%COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $7k → 10%LUX ART INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%LUX ART INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%PORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL: $5k → 17%SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$202k · 5 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$202k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+56%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • NG
    NATIONAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +157%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • RU
    RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +56%
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture
7
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
8
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
9
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
12
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Portal for Investment in the Latin American Social Sector. 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

10 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGOSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INCLUX ART INSTITUTE: $52,500 · OtherLUX ART INSTITUTENATIONAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL GAY PILOTS …BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SC…CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO F/K/A COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationCYPRESS SCHO…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $12,000 · InternationalPORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SECTOR: $5,000 · International
Arts & Culture$124,000Other$52,500Civil Rights$50,000Education$29,000International$17,000

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 budgetLUX ART INSTITUTE: $52,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO F/K/A COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $14,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SECTOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Buttgenbach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buttgenbach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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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