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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$5.1MArts & Culture$3.4MPhilanthropy$2.0MEnvironment$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$708kFood & Nutrition$495kReligion$458kOther$7.9M
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$150,000
AVENUES FOR YOUTH$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
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$55,000
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY LA$55,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$55,000
COLLEGEVILLE INSTITUTE$55,000
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$55,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$55,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$55,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND$55,000
WILDERNESS INQUIRY$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $43k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $40k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $40k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $40k → 11%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $30k → 14%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $30k → 14%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $30k → 14%AVIVO: $188k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $75k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $75k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $75k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $75k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $45k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $45k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $45k → 11%AVIVO: $30k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $120k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $40k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOT: $40k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $33k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $33k → 14%SAINT PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC: $165k → 14%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $125k → 11%SAINT PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC: $33k → 14%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $45k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $150k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $100k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $43k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $40k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $40k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $40k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CASA DE ESPERANZA: $53k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $50k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $50k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $50k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $50k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $45k → 14%ESPERANZA UNITED: $43k → 14%ESPERANZA UNITED: $43k → 14%ESPERANZA UNITED: $43k → 14%THE LINK: $150k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH INC: $50k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH INC: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 118 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
72

Total granted

$21M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

87%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • PS
    PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $538k · revenue +3%
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $463k · revenue +120%
  • AH
    AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $458k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLUES COMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIO
    one grant, 2020 · $240k
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY MN-SD-ND CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $238k
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
    one grant, 2020 · $230k · revenue -36%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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2
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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3
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
4
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
5
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
6
Arts Midwest Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
7
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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9
Minnesota Voice

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.

Public Benefit
10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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11
Veap Inc

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."

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12
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is East African Healing Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr15%27%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/171
the rest of the field
15%
6,937/44,948

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.

04the grantee network

167 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. 167 of the 214 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/167
Grantees still filing
118/167
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC — $537,500 · OtherPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INCAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $333,000 · OtherAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $457,500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $375,000 · Other+98 more — $7,773,265 · Other+98 moreAVIVO — $378,400 · Human ServicesAVIVOPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $370,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LI…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $365,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE…THE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT — $317,500 · Human ServicesTHE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY …Breaking Free Inc — $315,500 · Human ServicesBreaking Free IncAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $305,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDA…THE LINK — $290,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKSolid Ground — $282,500 · Human ServicesSolid GroundThe Family Partnership — $266,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $260,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $230,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $230,000 · Human ServicesESPERANZA UNITED — $210,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $208,500 · Human Services+21 more — $1,077,500 · Human Services+21 moreMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $355,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOC…WORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $355,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART M…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $260,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM …MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $255,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTO…RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $250,500 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY H…WALKER ART CENTER — $220,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENT…COMPAS INC — $189,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCMINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS — $188,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA CENTE…NORTHERN CLAY CENTER — $172,500 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $150,500 · Arts & CultureHighpoint Center for Printmaking — $150,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LOFT INC — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $591,500 · Arts & Culture+15 moreSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $570,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAU…Women's Foundation of Minnesota — $420,500 · PhilanthropyWomen's F…PROPEL NONPROFITS — $270,500 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NO…NORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $220,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND…Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc — $215,500 · PhilanthropyMinnesota…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW — $120,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…GIVEMN — $80,300 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $340,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $330,500 · EnvironmentWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $320,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $255,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $170,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $150,000 · EnvironmentMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION — $140,500 · Environment+6 more — $170,000 · EnvironmentJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $462,500 · Housing & ShelterEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $433,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING FUND — $390,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $193,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC — $165,500 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $90,000 · Housing & ShelterHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $425,000 · HealthFamilyWise Services — $400,500 · HealthTUBMAN — $395,000 · Health+2 more — $40,000 · Health
Other$9,476,265Human Services$5,106,900Arts & Culture$3,432,500Philanthropy$1,996,800Environment$1,876,500Housing & Shelter$1,734,000Health$1,260,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $570,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC — $537,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $462,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $457,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $433,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $420,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFamilyWise Services — $400,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTUBMAN — $395,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING FUND — $390,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAVIVO — $378,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $375,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $370,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $365,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $355,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $355,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $340,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $333,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $330,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $320,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT — $317,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetBreaking Free Inc — $315,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $305,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LINK — $290,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSolid Ground — $282,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS — $270,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $266,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $260,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $260,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $250,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project Inc — $250,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $241,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $240,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCoalition Against Trafficking In Women — $240,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $230,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $230,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $220,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $220,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc — $215,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetESPERANZA UNITED — $210,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $208,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $193,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC — $190,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $189,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustPohlad Family Foundat…Target FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Hardenbergh FoundationMardag FoundationMortenson Family Foun…Margaret a Cargill Fo…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN125.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patrick and Aimee Butler Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Patrick and Aimee Butler Family?

Find your warmest path to Patrick and Aimee Butler Family through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 214 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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