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Henry M Butzel Family Foundation Inc

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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$154kHuman Services$115kEducation$62kPhilanthropy$62kArts & Culture$47kYouth Development$11kCommunity Improvement$5kInternational$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Planned Parenthood$18,000
Northern Rivers Family Services$9,000
Schenectady High School$8,000
Jewish Federation of NE NY$7,500
Misc Charities 100200 each$2,900
University of Rochester$2,500
St University NY at Oneonta$2,500
St University NY Schenectady$1,000
St University NY at Buffalo$1,000
Empire St Youth Orchestra$1,000
Girls Inc of Greater Cap Region$700
Boys and Girls Clubs of Am$700
St Judes Childrens Research Hospit$300
ASPCA$200
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 (FY22–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Northern Rivers Family Services: $49k → 14%Northern Rivers Family Services: $9k → 14%Northern Rivers Family Services: $9k → 14%Northern Rivers Family Services: $9k → 14%YWCA Northeastern NY: $500 → 12%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 17 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
31

Total granted

$354k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+27%

Still filing today

18%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • NR
    NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +8%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Greater NY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $64k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood
    3× · 2023–2025 · $56k

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Greater NY
    one grant, 2022 · $33k
  • VM
    Various Misc Charities
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • BR
    Blue Roses Theatre Schdy HighSchool
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampshire College Trustees; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 52 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood of Greater NY: $64,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Greater NYPlanned Parenthood: $56,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodJewish Federation of NE NY: $45,000 · OtherJewish Federation of NE NYPlanned Parenthood Greater NY: $33,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood Greater NYNorthern Rivers NE Parent and Child: $30,000 · OtherNorthern Rivers NE Parent and ChildSchenectady High School: $28,000 · OtherSchenectady High SchoolVarious Misc Charities: $12,245 · Other+34 more: $88,040 · Other+34 moreNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $76,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN RIVERS FA…+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $7,500 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationNew York University: $2,500 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 · EducationEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 · Animals
Other$356,285Human Services$77,000Education$23,500Arts & Culture$2,500Youth Development$500Animals$200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $76,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF SCHENECTADY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Henry M Butzel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry M Butzel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 52 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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