· Private foundation
J Homer Butler Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMBRACE A VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| DALIT SOLIDARITY | $20,000 |
| DAMIEN HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SEWING HOPE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WELLS 4 WELLNESS | $10,000 |
| IMPACT INITIATIVES INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MOUNTAIN OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| MARYKNOLL LAY MISSIONERS | $5,000 |
| ST DOMINIC'S FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| CONCERN AMERICA | $5,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT WORKS | $5,000 |
| MED WISH | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $170k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 53% of J Homer Butler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- EAEMBRACE A VILLAGE6× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue +251%
- MFMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +15%
- DHDAMIEN HOUSE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $62k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TCTEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTERSone grant, 2018 · $21k
- MSMISSIONARY SISTERSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UMUSA MIDWEST PROVINCE JESUITSone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Mission work
To reach the unreached people groups of west africa primarily in burking faso and ghana-sharing the gospel message of jesus christ. the organization also provides basic medical care such as vitamins for children and treatment for malaria…
Mission vision has both an international focus and community based focus in western pennsylvania. on an international scale, it facilitates training of health care professionals and missionaries, promotes wellness and education, and…
Missionary work in the nation of India
To provide optical medication and services for the poor in foreign countries
Provide free medical assistance to poor people in 3rd world countries
Kingdom Investment works among the poor and oppressed to bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God that results in holistic transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.
To develope a ministry using the earthly work of Jesus Christ as a model and thereby seek the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of individuals in communities, esecially in developing countries by providing humanitarian…
To provide for the physcial needs of the poor in honduras by providing free medical care.
Provide medical and other services to underdeveloped countries, primarily in africa, under the auspices of various christian missionary organizations. the major activity is the construction of wells for drinking water in remote african…
Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 79 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 EMBRACE A VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAMIEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DALIT SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCANS FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISION FOR THE POOR ↗
- Who funds MISSION FUEL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds SEWING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles ↗
- Who funds VISIONS MADE VIABLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Initiatives Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLS 4 WELLNESS 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: Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 J Homer Butler Foundation Inc 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.
- Hope for Haiti 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.
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