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M Verna Butterer Educational Trust at a glance

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M Verna Butterer Educational Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$187k
Granted FY2026still arriving
27
Grants FY2026still arriving
12
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$1.9MHealth$65k
02FY2026 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k25 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$6,666
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$30,835
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$12,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$9,713
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$8,326
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$8,162
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY$8,000
MARIST COLLEGE$8,000
MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$8,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$8,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON$7,226
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$6,666
KING'S COLLEGE$6,638
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $8k → 10%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $11k → 6%URSINUS COLLEGE: $11k → 7%WIDENER UNIVERSITY: $14k → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $51k → 16%MARIST COLLEGE: $8k → 9%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $8k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 14%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $12k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%VIRGINIA TECH: $11k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $12k → 11%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $11k → 6%URSINUS COLLEGE: $8k → 7%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $41k → 16%MARIST COLLEGE: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 14%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $35k → 16%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $23k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $21k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $11k → 17%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $16k → 16%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $13k → 14%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $15k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $14k → 16%SALUS UNIVERSITY: $12k → 7%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $9k → 16%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $15k → 11%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $15k → 11%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $12k → 11%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $8k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $8k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 71 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+24%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    10× · 2017–2026 · $102k · revenue +5%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    10× · 2017–2026 · $94k · revenue +44%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    10× · 2017–2026 · $86k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2025 · $41k
  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Endicott College

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.

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Wake Forest University

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…

Education
6
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
7
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
8
Marquette University

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.

Education
9
Georgian Court University

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.

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
11
Bentley University

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…

Education
12
Wesleyan University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
47/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $101,897 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $93,962 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $86,380 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYURSINUS COLLEGE: $48,677 · Education+46 more: $657,634 · Education+46 morePENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: $183,735 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPSDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $74,195 · OtherDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITYMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $73,304 · OtherMORAVIAN UNIVERSITYUniversity of Michigan: $48,500 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,843 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $39,026 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · Other+35 more: $443,762 · Other+35 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $29,000 · Community Improvement
Education$988,550Other$939,365Community Improvement$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $101,897 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $93,962 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $86,380 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $74,195 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $73,304 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetURSINUS COLLEGE: $48,677 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $48,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,190 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $30,117 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $29,056 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $25,761 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $24,847 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $24,101 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $23,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $23,745 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $21,510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $21,435 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $20,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $18,997 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $18,829 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $18,566 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBluffton University: $17,457 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $16,135 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALUS UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $15,808 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $15,659 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $14,135 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $12,319 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $11,911 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $11,436 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $10,392 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $9,871 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $9,604 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $8,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $8,408 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $6,945 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $6,330 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $5,332 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $4,730 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds University of Scranton ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Bluffton University ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M Verna Butterer Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M Verna Butterer Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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 93 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home