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Kinder and Jeff Butler Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kinder and Jeff Butler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$100kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$45kArts & Culture$21kReligion$20kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CTR$30,000
SIERRA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$25,000
SIERRA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$25,000
DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC$21,430
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORGANIZ$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC$10,000
02The need
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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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARE ORGANIZATION: $25k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORGANIZ: $20k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $10k → 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 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
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
3
American Friends of Tzohar

Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel

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4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
American Friends of Collegio Maimonides

The organization provides financial assistance to jewish educational programs.

Education
6
Friedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc

To educate the public with regard to the importance of maintaining and strengthening the US-Israel relationship.

Education
7
Friends of Ofanim Inc

Friends of ofanim, inc. is a non-profit organization whose principal purpose is to promote educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged children and others. friends of ofanim raises awareness of ofanim, a charitable…

International
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
9
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
10
American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc

To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.

International
11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim Inc

To solicit funds to be distributed to yeshivat ohr yerushalayim, a post high school located in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Canyon School; the most unlike its peers is Property and Environment Research Center. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationSIERRA CANYON SCHOOLDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $21,430 · EducationDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMYBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGEChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $5,375 · EducationCARE ORGANIZATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesCARE ORGANIZATIONAmerican Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends of IDF W…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD E…PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 · Public BenefitPROPERTY AND ENVIRONME…CHURCH AT ROCKY PEAK: $20,000 · OtherCHURCH AT…
Education$121,805Human Services$55,000Public Benefit$50,000Other$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIERRA CANYON SCHOOL: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCARE ORGANIZATION: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $21,430 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $5,375 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kinder and Jeff Butler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kinder and Jeff Butler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 9 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.

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