· Private foundation
M Verna Butterer Educational Trust
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k25 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,835 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $9,713 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $8,326 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $8,162 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $8,000 |
| MARIST COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON | $7,226 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $6,666 |
| KING'S COLLEGE | $6,638 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your 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.
71 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2026, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
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
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education10× · 2017–2026 · $102k · revenue +5%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH10× · 2017–2026 · $94k · revenue +44%- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY10× · 2017–2026 · $86k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $41k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2020 · $7k
- FIFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 83 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 93 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 Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
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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: Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 M Verna Butterer Educational Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 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.