California · Private foundation
Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,204
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 9 | $312k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $310k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $394k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $179k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $290k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $218k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $250k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $246k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Redwood Project | $595,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Laguna Beach Seniors Inc | $515,593 | 9 | 20% |
| Sanctuary Springs Inc | $342,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Air Force Academy Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation | $31,040 | 4 | 1% |
| No Square Theatre | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area | $21,381 | 4 | 0% |
| Grandparent Autism Network | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Covellite Presents | $17,306 | 2 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorene and Lee Butler Family 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation with peer funders
About Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation
- How much does Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation give?
- Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $311,691 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Human Services (22%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Redwood Project ($595k), Laguna Beach Seniors Inc ($516k), Sanctuary Springs Inc ($342k).
- Does Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Orange County Community Foundation.
- Where is Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation based?
- Dorene and Lee Butler Family Foundation is based in CA.
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