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Edward Doc Butler Family Foundation at a glance

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Edward Doc Butler Family 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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$268kHealth$22kYouth Development$12kHuman Services$11kHousing & Shelter$5kCivil Rights$3kEducation$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$687k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY$25,000
EDU NATIONS INC$1,500
HOME BENEATH OUR FEET$1,000
MOUNT ST MARY ACADEMY$500
Individual grant recipient$100
SNYDER FIRE DEPT$100
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $5k → 13%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 14 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$316k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +15%
  • HF
    HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BH
    BELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST CAUSES
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
2
United Memorial Medical Center

United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…

Health
3
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
4
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital

To operate an inpatient and outpatient hospital, clinics and treatment centers for the delivery of acute medical, surgical and preventative health care services.

Health
5
The Rochester General Hospital

To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…

Health
6
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
7
Central New York Ronald McDonald House

Housing and programs for sick children and thier families.

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8
Canton-Potsdam Hospital

Canton potsdam hospital's mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets community needs.

Health
9
Massena Hospital Inc

Massena hospital's mission is to provide quality healthcare and the best patient experience.

Health
10
Open Arms Rescue of Wny
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11
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
12
Clifton Springs Sanitarium Co

Healthcare on a nonprofit basis to promote the health of the community as a whole.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecmc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kitten Around Cat Rescue. 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

17 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. 17 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $267,575 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY+3 more: $4,820 · PhilanthropyMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY: $3,800 · OtherNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST CAUSES: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,249 · OtherMOUNT ST MARY ACADEMY: $1,700 · OtherST LUKES MISSION: $1,500 · OtherSOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF BUFFALO: $1,000 · Other+12 more: $3,660 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $8,630 · HealthECMC FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 · HealthHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC: $700 · HealthCOMPEER WEST INC: $650 · HealthMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $500 · HealthHOME BENEATH OUR FEET INC: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,350 · Human ServicesBELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEDUNATIONS INC: $1,500 · International
Philanthropy$272,395Other$19,409Health$13,180Youth Development$11,500Human Services$11,350Housing & Shelter$5,000International$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $267,575 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOME BENEATH OUR FEET INC: $11,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $8,630 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $4,470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPEER WEST INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKITTEN AROUND CAT RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 12% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSnyder Fire Department Inc: $450 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 …Buffalo Bills Foundat…The John R Oishei Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…First Niagara Foundat…Health Foundation for…The Western New York …New Era Cap FoundationBuffalo Sabres Founda…Rich Family FoundationThe Saperston Family …Independent Health As…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Western New York Foundation · New Era Cap Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The Saperston Family Foundation · Independent Health Association Inc

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 Edward Doc Butler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Doc Butler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edward Doc Butler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edward Doc Butler Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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