· Private foundation
Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC | $200,000 |
| SANCTUARY SPRINGS INC | $48,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,557 |
| Moveable Feast Lexington Inc | $13,500 |
| Covellite Presents | $12,204 |
| Sierra Madre Search & Rescue Team | $5,000 |
| Balboa Island Museum Newport Beach | $1,000 |
| New York Shakespeare Festival- The Public Theater | $500 |
| Share Ourselves | $480 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LBLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $516k · revenue +130%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA4× · 2019–2022 · $21k · revenue +43%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +300%
Funded once
- AFAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -14%
- TRTHE REDWOOD PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $160k
- NSNO SQUARE THEATREgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +51%
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.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Calnonprofits, the leading policy voice for california's nonprofit sector, focuses on advocacy, education, and research to build a more powerful and politically engaged nonprofit network across california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Covellite Presents. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 90 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 LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds NO SQUARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds COVELLITE PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Love Never Fails Inc ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Kimball Art Center ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MADRE SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WATCH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN OAKLAND EDUCATION DBA VINCENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Youth Rugby Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN CINCINNAI FOUNDATION ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Greater Horizons · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation
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 Dorene and Lee Butler Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.