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Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd at a glance

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Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd

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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$782kHuman Services$625kEducation$501kCivil Rights$250kYouth Development$100kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$100kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REAL LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH$500,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$275,000
UVALDE CISC MOVING FORWARD FND$250,000
UP PARTNERSHIP$250,000
RISE RECOVERY$244,000
LIFETIME RECOVERY$150,000
YWCA$125,000
TAMU-SA FOUNDATION$125,000
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$100,000
OXFORD HOUSE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
ASSET FUNDERS NETWORK$60,000
HE BUTT FOUNDATION$50,000
PLAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION$50,000
HELPING HANDS EDUCATION FUND$10,000
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$777k · 7 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$777k
$338k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHealthReligionRecreation & SportsEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • RR
    RISE RECOVERY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $344k · revenue +16%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • HE
    H E BUTT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $163k · revenue +17%
  • SU
    Schreiner University
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • CR
    CARON RENAISSANCE TREATMENT CENTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
2
South Texas Recovery Foundation Incorporated

South texas recovery foundation exists to tear down the strongholds of substance use disorder and transform lives through counseling, education and long-term support. south texas recovery foundation operates an extended recovery center for…

Health
3
Serenity Foundation of Texas

Changing the future one life at a time through Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Support Services.

Health
4
Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc

Phoenix Houses of Texas is passionate about healing individuals, families and communities with substance use disorders and related mental health conditions so that people can overcome drug & alcohol addiction and lead productive,…

Health
5
Homeward Bound Inc

To promote positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families suffering from drug abuse, addiction, criminal behavior, and mental illness.

Crime & Legal
6
Live More Recovery Services

We offer substance abuse counseling, recovery support groups for all ages and races and religions in San Antonio to the public free of charge

Health
7
Communities for Recovery

Communities for Recovery supports long-term recovery for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health issues by partnering with other organizations in the community to provide peer-supported recovery services.

Health
8
Hendrick Home for Children
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9
How Center

The H.O.W. Center provides a safe and structured living environment for individuals recovering from alcoholism and addiction while they gain the skills they need to live independently and successfully.

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10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Respite Care Sa Foundation

Holds endowment funds and supports Respite Care of San Antonio, Inc.

Health
12
Cenikor Foundation

Cenikor: a place for change providing a foundation for better health and better lives.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery; the most unlike its peers is Playitforward Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UVALDE CISC MOVING FORWARD FND: $250,000 · OtherUVALDE CISC MOVING FORWARD FNDUP PARTNERSHIP: $250,000 · OtherUP PARTNERSHIPTAMU-SA FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherTAMU-SA FOUNDATIONYWCA: $125,000 · OtherYWCAIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOxford House Inc: $100,000 · OtherOxford House IncCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHH E BUTT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherH E BUTT FOUNDATIONASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $60,000 · OtherCARON RENAISSANCE TREATMENT CENTERS: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $56,500 · OtherRISE RECOVERY: $344,000 · HealthRISE RECOVERYSAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY: $200,000 · HealthSAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOV…CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $163,400 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDA…REAL LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $500,000 · ReligionREAL LIFE COMMUNIT…Trinity University: $275,000 · EducationTrinity Univer…Schreiner University: $100,000 · EducationSchreiner Univ…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationPLAYITFORWARD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START: $10,000 · EmploymentHILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLearning Ally Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,326,500Health$707,400Religion$500,000Education$385,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Employment$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetREAL LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRISE RECOVERY: $344,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTrinity University: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $163,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSchreiner University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOxford House Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetH E BUTT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA HOME INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHelping Hands Educational Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKERRVILLE PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $1,000 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.

The Independent Chari…San Antonio Area Foun…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Marcia & Otto Koehler…St Luke's Lutheran He…United Way of San Ant…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Independent Charitable Gift FundOH19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · San Antonio Area Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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Find your warmest path to Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd 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 25 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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