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Butler Family Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k91 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC | $25,500 |
| CATE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TANGER HILLEL AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $5,000 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS INC | $5,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS | $2,500 |
| CHALLENGE ASPEN | $2,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION | $1,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $1,600 |
| VALLEY SETTLEMENT | $1,500 |
| FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
207 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 126 since wound down; 10 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AAASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $167k · revenue +19%
- AEASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $70k · revenue +91%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2018–2023 · $56k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- HTHADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2018 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +134%
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Guild International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
205 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. 205 of the 304 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND ↗
- Who funds BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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: Aspen Community Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Castaways Foundation · Indian Trail Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Butler Family Foundation 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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