· Private foundation
George E& Betty Bdutton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $23,000 |
| ADVENTURE WORKS | $7,500 |
| NIU FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $7,500 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| CASA-DEKALB COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS | $5,000 |
| LAND'S SAKE INC | $5,000 |
| KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATIONAL SUMMER ASSEMBLY | $4,500 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $3,000 |
| KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DCDeKalb County History Center5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +173%
- SPSAFE PASSAGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
- OHOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Responds to community needs with compassionate, Christ-centered programs and services
Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations
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.
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 and quality of…
The dekalb co senior citizens councils mission statement is to promote, maintain, and enhance the quality of life for older persons and handicapped individuals
Counsel sexual assault victims and family members.
A faith based not-for-profit community serving seniors 62 years of age and older through a continuum of services enhancing an individuals quality of life.
The arc of dekalb county is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the…
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…
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and advocate for social change through support, education, and outreach.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 DeKalb County History Center ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds LAND'S SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL SUMMER ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES IN TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Ideal Industries Foundation · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way · The Bersted Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Nebraska Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 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.
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition 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.