Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $493k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $351,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $180k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Butz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $493k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $560k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $649k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $633k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $462k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $617k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $414k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $577k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desales University | $253,550 | 9 | 0% |
| Geisinger Health | $207,920 | 3 | 0% |
| National Museum of Industrial History | $185,000 | 9 | 23% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $125,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc | $121,500 | 6 | 2% |
| State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc | $102,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Lehigh University | $99,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $92,001 | 5 | n/a |
| Allentown Symphony Association Inc | $76,100 | 5 | 1% |
| Cedar Crest College | $74,200 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Butz Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Butz Foundation
- How much does Butz Foundation give?
- Butz Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $493,271 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Butz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (17%).
- Who are Butz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Desales University ($254k), Geisinger Health ($208k), National Museum of Industrial History ($185k).
- Does Butz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Butz Foundation 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 Butz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Air Products Foundation, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Butz Foundation based?
- Butz Foundation is based in PA.
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