· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| OXFORD HOUSE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ASSET FUNDERS NETWORK | $60,000 |
| HE BUTT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PLAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- RRRISE RECOVERY2× · 2023–2024 · $344k · revenue +16%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
- HEH E BUTT FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $163k · revenue +17%
- SUSchreiner Universityone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +21%
- CRCARON RENAISSANCE TREATMENT CENTERSone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
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…
Changing the future one life at a time through Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Support Services.
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,…
To promote positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families suffering from drug abuse, addiction, criminal behavior, and mental illness.
We offer substance abuse counseling, recovery support groups for all ages and races and religions in San Antonio to the public free of charge
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.
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.
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…
Holds endowment funds and supports Respite Care of San Antonio, Inc.
Cenikor: a place for change providing a foundation for better health and better lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery and 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.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 REAL LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds H E BUTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oxford House Inc ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds PLAYITFORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Educational Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Howard E Butt III & Pamela C Butt Family Fd 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.
- Oxford House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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.
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