· Private foundation
Russell W Butterworth 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 $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE ATTA TIME | $30,000 |
| PLANT WITH PURPOSE | $30,000 |
| FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| 1MISSION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PROJECT MEXICO | $10,000 |
| RIZE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHARING GOD'S LOVE | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| NEW HANOVER LIONS CLUB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $5,000 |
| SCHEART FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- FUFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +280%
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +94%- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- RPRIZE Prevention Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +311%
- RFRIZA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SASALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
End hunger together.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lexington Police Department Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 69 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 FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Saluda Shoals Foundation ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds ONE ATTA TIME INC ↗
- Who funds RICHFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIZE Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Midlands Fatherhood Coalition ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME STOPPERS OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFE SERVI ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Servant Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon 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 Russell W Butterworth 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.