· Private foundation
Red Butterfly 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYRIAD USA | $150,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $125,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ROYAL NATIONAL THEATER | $105,000 |
| GLOBAL GREEN GRANTS FUND | $75,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW INC | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $50,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $40,000 |
| OCEANWISE VANCOUVER AQUARIUM | $35,000 |
| LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS | $25,000 |
| ONLY ONE INC SEA LEGACY | $20,000 |
| CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES | $20,000 |
| AMAZON FRONT LINES | $15,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of Red Butterfly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- T1THE 19TH NEWS5× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +77%
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +32%
- WMWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $294k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- RAROYAL ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $130k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GRANGE PARKone grant, 2018 · $117k
- EFEQUALITY FUNDone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
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Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 75 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
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds AMAZON FRONTLINES ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN HOPE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARTOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Conservation Fund Corp ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Red Butterfly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Butterfly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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