· Private foundation
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $150,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY MN-SD-ND CH | $120,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT | $120,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND | $110,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $100,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY LA | $55,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND | $55,000 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $55,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $55,000 |
| COLLEGEVILLE INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART | $55,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $538k · revenue +3%
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM4× · 2020–2023 · $463k · revenue +120%
- AHAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $458k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCLUES COMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIOone grant, 2020 · $240k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY MN-SD-ND CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $238k
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolisone grant, 2020 · $230k · revenue -36%
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.
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
How this is measured
167 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. 167 of the 214 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds FamilyWise Services ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Breaking Free Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Domestic Abuse Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds Coalition Against Trafficking In Women ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patrick and Aimee Butler Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick and Aimee Butler Family. Bigger dots raise more.
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
- The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery Inc: 33% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
- Rescue Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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