How much does Butzel Long Charitable Trust give?

Butzel Long Charitable Trust reported 54 grants totaling $76,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Butzel Long Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (10%).

Who are Butzel Long Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kids in Need Foundation ($70k), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($23k), Focushope ($18k).

Does Butzel Long Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Butzel Long Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Butzel Long Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, United Way for Southeastern Michigan.

Where is Butzel Long Charitable Trust based?

Butzel Long Charitable Trust is based in MI.

Butzel Long Charitable Trust

Butzel Long Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Butzel Long Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$131kArts & Culture$48kHealth$45kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$21kCrime & Legal$21kCivil Rights$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k53 grants · $67k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$35k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION	$10,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH	$5,000
FOCUS HOPE	$4,708
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC	$3,500
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN	$3,250
LOVE FOR A CHILD	$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN	$2,500
PULTE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$2,000
LIGHTHOUSE OF MICHIGAN	$2,000
BEYOND BASICS	$2,000
DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION	$2,000
COHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION	$2,000
ROSA PARKS FOUNDATION	$2,000
COLLEGE CAREER AND BEYOND	$1,500
DETROIT BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION	$1,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$333k · 57 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$333k

$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+15%

Still filing today

60%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

F
FOCUSHOPE
8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +40%
BB
BEYOND BASICS
4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +140%
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +137%

Funded once

KI
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k
LA
LIVING AND LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $4k
BH
Beacon Health Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +586%

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.

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement

Business Leaders for Michigan

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Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition

Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Peer Review Organization

Helping healthcare get better. MPRO has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. MPRO also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial…

Health

Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Michigan Dental Association Foundation

To support michigan residents' quality of life through improved dental health.

Education

Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care of Southeastern Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Pulte Family Charitable Foundation. 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

91 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. 91 of the 165 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/91

Grantees still filing

64/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$217,249Education$110,844Arts & Culture$37,365Human Services$31,428Health$18,568Youth Development$15,325Religion$13,036

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI61.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Carls Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Eagles for Children · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Skillman 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 Butzel Long Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butzel Long Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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