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Megan Butz Legacy of Hope

Our mission is to strengthen the lives of at-risk teens and young adults without resources so they may navigate the path to adulthood via mental health programming and support.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$60kHuman Services$37kSocial Science$25k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$839k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$30,000
YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING$30,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$25,000
PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES$25,000
CARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$23,600
ELYSSA'S MISSION$20,000
WILLOW HOUSE$15,000
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 (FY23–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $30k → 8%LISA HANSON-BRAUN: $25k → 14%Lisa Hanson-Braun: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%BARRINGTON YOUTH AND FAMILY SVCS: $12k → 14%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
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
2
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
3
Thrive Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.

Health
4
Illinois Psychiatric Society

To advocate for the highest quality care for patients with psychiatric disorders

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5
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center

Samaritan Interfaith's counseling program provides professional mental health counseling and psychological assessments and testing for adults, children, adolescents, and families from diverse backgrounds and varied financial means.

Health
6
Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center

Turning point behavioral health care center operates an outpatient community mental health center providing services to adults, adolescents, and children.

Health
7
Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes Inc

To provide professional counseling and support services to individuals, children and families to improve the quality of their life at home and in the community

Human Services
8
Pathways Counseling and Growth Center

Family and individual counseling the organization provides body, mind and spirit-centered psychological counseling services so that individuals can reach their

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9
Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc

Provide affordable professional counseling for troubled individuals and families. Counseling is provided to residents of eight communities in Union County, NJ without regard to ability to pay.

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10
Family Services Inc

Family counseling services

Human Services
11
Cornerstone Counseling Ctr Chicago

Cornerstone Counseling empowers people to reach their spiritual, relational, and emotional potential through exceptional counseling and personal development services.

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12
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Josselyn Center Nfp; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. 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 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $75,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIESJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELINGBARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $12,000 · Human ServicesBARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICESST ANTHONYS HOSPITAL: $35,000 · OtherST ANTHONYS HOSPITALCARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $23,600 · OtherCARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH S…THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $25,000 · HealthTHE JOSSE…CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Social ScienceCHICAGO P…Elyssas Mission NFP: $20,000 · Crime & LegalWILLOW HOUSE: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$147,000Other$58,600Health$25,000Social Science$25,000Crime & Legal$20,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 budgetPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Megan Butz Legacy of Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Megan Butz Legacy of Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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