How much did GEORGE E& BETTY BDUTTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of GEORGE E& BETTY BDUTTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $87k
$10k–50k1 grant · $23k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$23,000
NIU FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF MUSIC$7,500
ADVENTURE WORKS$7,500
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$7,500
KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS$5,000
HOPE HAVEN$5,000
DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS$5,000
LAND'S SAKE INC$5,000
CASA-DEKALB COUNTY INC$5,000
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE$5,000
SAFE PASSAGE$5,000
CONGREGATIONAL SUMMER ASSEMBLY$4,500
NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE$3,000
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA$3,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$584k · 23 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$584k

$3k

Still filing today

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentEmploymentCivil RightsOther

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

DC
DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER
5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +341%
BA
BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS
5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +42%
LS
LAND'S SAKE INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +135%

Funded once

CS
CONGREGATIONAL SUMMER
one grant, 2021 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Dekalb Area Retirement Center

A faith based not-for-profit community serving people 62 years and older through a continuum of services enhancing an individual's quality of life.

Human Services

Dekalb County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.

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Dekalb County Economic Development

Promote and assist the growth and development of business in dekalb county, attract business and industry to dekalb county, assist with workforce development, and facilitate demographic research and educational activities.

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Dekalb County Economic Development

Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…

Community Improvement

Leadership Dekalb Inc

Leadership dekalb convenes current and emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds, informs them about vital issues for a thriving and forward- looking dekalb county, and engages them to lead in ways that improve quality of life for all who…

Public Benefit

Dekalb County Council On Aging Inc

To improve the quality of life of the seniors, disabled persons and others in our community through services and programs that meet their physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and mobile needs.

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Family Service Agency of Dekalb

Family service agency exists to strengthen people and communities through hope, healing and engagement.

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Dekalb County Community Foundation

The community foundation of dekalb county promotes community philanthropy by offering local citizens the opportunity to create a charitable legacy that will sustain and improve life in our county.

Philanthropy

Elder Care Services

Elder care services of dekalb county, inc. was established to promote and further the welfare of senior citizens and their families who live in dekalb county, through the provision of services which improve their well being.

Crime & Legal

Dekalb Community Impact Corporation

Responds to community needs with compassionate, Christ-centered programs and services

Recreation & Sports

Kankakee County Community Services Inc

Kankakee county community services, inc. believes that individuals and families deserve economic well-being. we work in collaboration with funders and local organizations to offer opportunities to educate, empower and build self-reliance.

Community Improvement

Dekalb County Children's Advocacy Center

Prevent / intervene in child abuse situations

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dekalb County History Center. 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

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$320,500Arts & Culture$91,000Human Services$45,500Religion$40,000Environment$38,000Philanthropy$26,000Employment$25,500

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.

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.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare GroupIL24.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Ideal Industries Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Chicago Community Trust · Bickner Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community 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 organisation GEORGE E& BETTY BDUTTON 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364321529 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GEORGE E& BETTY BDUTTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation?

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GEORGE E& BETTY BDUTTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation?

More from the funding graph