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Butz Foundation
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 $10k25 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
- $250k+1 grant · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $351,200 |
| GREATER LV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FD | $25,541 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CEDAR CREST COLLEGE | $11,500 |
| PSD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| DACDI FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL | $6,500 |
| CIVIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ECONOMIC DEVEL CORP | $5,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $4,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,330 |
| VICTORY HOUSE OF LV | $3,000 |
| ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| CACLV | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 40% of Butz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- DUDESALES UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +37%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH3× · 2017–2020 · $208k · revenue +235%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- VHVALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +431%
- APALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- RCROHR CHABAD AT LEHIGHone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Lebanon valley college educates students for lifelong success through exceptional undergraduate liberal-arts programs and professional graduate programs delivered in an engaging and supportive academic and co-curricular environment.…
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 100 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 DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Allentown School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND TO BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds DIAKON ↗
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Lutron Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · Salvaggio Family Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust
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 Butz Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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