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Button 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$564kInternational$87kMembership Benefit$78kReligion$36kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEducation$7kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$322k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SHRINER HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%HAGAMAN FIRE DEPT: $1k → 7%ADIRONDACK BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 13%FAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $42k → 14%I AM MINISTERIES: $3k → 14%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHRINERS: $5k → 13%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $110k → 11%ST JUDES: $505k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $20k → 21%SHRINER HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%FAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $25k → 14%I AM MINISTERIES: $2k → 14%SHRINERS: $5k → 13%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 11%ST JUDES: $10k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $15k → 21%SMH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 11%ST JUDES: $10k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $12k → 21%FAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $5k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 11%ST JUDES: $10k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%CHARLESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 11%ST JUDES: $10k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY: $5k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $18k → 11%ST JUDES: $5k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%CRANEVILLE FIRE DEPT: $4k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%ST JUDES: $5k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $5k → 21%ST MARY'S CHURCH: $3k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 11%ST JUDES: $5k → 17%WORLD MEDICAL MISSION: $5k → 21%FAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $3k → 14%BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 11%CHRISTMAS CHILD: $2k → 21%ST MARY'S CHURCH: $2k → 14%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $2k → 14%CRANEVILLE FIRE DEPT: $2k → 14%FT JOHNSON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+169%

Still filing today

29%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $560k · revenue +145%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $312k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • AB
    ADIRONDACK BAPTIST CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • SF
    SMH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WM
    WORLD MEDICAL MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
3
The Joseph E Peter Foundation
Philanthropy
4
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
5
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
6
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
10
Syracuse Jewish Cemeteries Association Inc

Prepare & maintain religious burial grounds

Membership Benefit
11
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
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 University At Albany Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Amsterdam Free Library. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 31 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $560,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCIndividual grant recipient: $312,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $78,000 · OtherFAIRVIEW CEMETERY+23 more: $81,925 · Other+23 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $82,000 · ReligionCRANESVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITY: $500 · Education
Health$560,000Other$471,925Religion$82,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000Public Benefit$5,000Education$1,500

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $560,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $82,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $78,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetCRANESVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $500 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FAIRVIEW CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds CRANESVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Button Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Button Family Foundation Inc 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 31 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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