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H E Butt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$3.1MReligion$1.5MEducation$995kYouth Development$756kHuman Services$699kArts & Culture$674kRecreation & Sports$673kCommunity Improvement$557kOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k69 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $312k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$762M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RCCMH$1,827,959
LAITY LODGE FOUNDATION$354,125
UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION$250,000
AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION$200,001
UPTOGETHER$109,553
COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC$100,000
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH$100,000
LEAKEY ISD$95,000
LAITY RENEWAL FOUNDATION$93,834
SAY SI$75,000
STUDENTS OF SERVICE INC$75,000
SA YOUTH$75,000
THE LEMONADE CIRCLE$75,000
SAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS$75,000
EMPOWER HOUSE SA$75,000
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 (FY23–24, $659k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%UPTOGETHER: $219k → 10%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $10k → 13%UPTOGETHER: $110k → 10%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $250k → 25%WONDERS & WORRIES: $100 → 10%AMERICAN INDIANS IN TEXAS AT THE SPANISH COLONIAL MISSIONS: $3k → 16%AMERICAN INDIANS IN TEXAS AT THE SPANISH COLONIAL MISSIONS: $3k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $17k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $500 → 16%MADONNA CENTER INC: $17k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $17k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $5k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $500 → 16%MADONNA CENTER INC: $500 → 16%SA HEALS: $5k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of H E Butt Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

H E Butt Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 42 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
100

Total granted

$6.1M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+33%

Still filing today

55%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $873k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
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

  • LL
    Laity Lodge Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $685k · revenue +11%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $407k · revenue +53%
  • LR
    Laity Renewal Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $177k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CL
    Contributions-Laity Lodge Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $349k
  • U
    UpTogether
    one grant, 2022 · $275k
  • UC
    UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOU
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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.

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Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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2
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
3
Fiesta San Antonio CommissionInc

To plan,promote,and preserve Fiesta San Antonio through the support of non-profit, civic and patriotic participating member organization in presenting a safe educational, annual celebration of diverse heritage,culture and spirit of the San…

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4
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
5
Jolt Action Inc

We believe young Latinos will transform Texas through the power of their vote. We are harnessing the brilliance of our community and culture to build a generation of leaders that matches the urgency of our time.

Human Services
6
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…

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7
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
8
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
9
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
10
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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11
Girls Incorporated of San Antonio

Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent.

Human Services
12
Futuro San Antonio

Futuro San Antonio mobilizes families to organize and advocate for education equity by engaging voters, building organizing capacity, and endorsing educational champions. See Schedule O

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sa Youth; the most unlike its peers is National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 187 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
37/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RCCMH: $2,432,959 · OtherRCCMHAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $407,443 · OtherAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCContributions-Laity Lodge Foundation: $349,328 · OtherUpTogether: $275,467 · OtherUVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOU: $250,000 · Other+144 more: $3,648,926 · Other+144 moreLaity Lodge Foundation: $684,631 · Religion+2 more: $2,600 · ReligionFII - NATIONAL: $328,660 · Human ServicesUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $250,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $22,500 · Human Services+6 more: $57,600 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $295,000 · HealthEMPOWER HOUSE SA: $113,500 · HealthCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $25,000 · HealthRISE RECOVERY: $22,500 · HealthFRIO CANYON EMS INC: $20,000 · HealthSA YOUTH: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAY SI: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS OF SERVICE INC: $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEMONADE CIRCLE: $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentPUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS: $77,500 · Arts & CultureSan Antonio Report: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MILL: $22,902 · Arts & CultureTHE GATHERING: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $123,750 · EducationROOTEDGOOD: $59,515 · EducationPATHNORTH INC: $50,000 · EducationRESTORE EDUCATION INC: $24,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · Education
Other$7,364,123Religion$687,231Human Services$658,760Health$476,000Youth Development$335,500Arts & Culture$262,402Education$258,765

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 budgetLaity Lodge Foundation: $684,631 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $407,443 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $328,660 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $295,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLaity Renewal Foundation: $177,388 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $162,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $123,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEMPOWER HOUSE SA: $113,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSA YOUTH: $80,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSAY SI: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCULTURINGUA: $80,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSTUDENTS OF SERVICE INC: $77,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetGardopia Gardens: $77,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetSAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS: $77,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetLEMONADE CIRCLE: $77,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetBUSHONG MOUNTAIN PARK: $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROOTEDGOOD: $59,515 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPATHNORTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSan Antonio Report: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $33,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $27,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIMPACT GUILD: $27,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRESTORE EDUCATION INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE MILL: $22,902 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRISE RECOVERY: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS SAN ANTONIO: $21,700 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHouse of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIO CANYON EMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSALTEXCHANGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $18,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMadonna Center Incorporated: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOVEN INC: $17,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLeakey Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS: $10,205 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Laity Lodge Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Laity Renewal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER HOUSE SA ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SA YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SAY SI ↗
  • Who funds CULTURINGUA ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS OF SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Gardopia Gardens ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds LEMONADE CIRCLE ↗

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…John L Santikos Chari…Methodist Healthcare …Harvey E Najim Charit…Faye L & William L Co…Pryor Myra Stafford C…United Way of San Ant…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…The Texas Cavaliers C…Spurs GiveShield-Ayres Foundati…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX64.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Spurs Give · Shield-Ayres Foundation

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 H E Butt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H E Butt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to H E Butt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to H E Butt 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 187 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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