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Merle E & Patricia a Butler Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| ST PETERS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $20,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT | $20,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $17,500 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN UCC MISSION TEAM | $10,000 |
| ROSSMAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $10,000 |
| CHURCHILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ORCHARD FARM HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $774k · revenue +223%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT2× · 2022–2023 · $466k · revenue +14%- NFNURSES FOR NEWBORNS6× · 2018–2023 · $205k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SCSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- AAASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- VPVFW POST 6632one grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Based on a conviction that an educated society is essential to a healthy democracy, the scholarship foundation of st. louis supports students with financial need to and through higher education by providing scholarship grants,…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.
In partnership with donors and volunteers, le bonheur children's hospital foundation promotes philanthropic investment to support le bonheur children's hospital's mission of providing high qualitypatient care, research and advocacy.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Love Enough 4 U Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS ↗
- Who funds Ladue Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOVE ENOUGH 4 U FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT TRAINING FOUNDATION ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · August a Busch III Charitable Trust · World Wide Technology Foundation · Dotopia · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Merle E & Patricia a Butler Family Charitable 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.
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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