· Private foundation
Kimberly and David Butler 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CROIX FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTY | $4,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION | $3,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC | $3,000 |
| WATERORG | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| MN IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MN | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +20%- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +31%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $4k
- AUAMERICAN UNITED FOR SEPARATION OFone grant, 2019 · $3k
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +29%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is We Need Diverse Books. 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 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 44 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE 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.
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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 Kimberly and David 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.
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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