California · 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.
- $201k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Russell W Butterworth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $201k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $185k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $195k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $181k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $101k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $130k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $153k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $222k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floresta USA Incorporated | $304,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Family Assistance Ministries | $119,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Saluda Shoals Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Free Medical Clinic Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $46,000 | 7 | 0% |
| One Mission Inc Dba 1mission | $43,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Good Neighbors Inc | $35,300 | 5 | 3% |
| Sharing Gods Love Inc | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($447k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Russell W Butterworth Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Russell W Butterworth Foundation
- How much does Russell W Butterworth Foundation give?
- Russell W Butterworth Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $200,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Russell W Butterworth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Health (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Russell W Butterworth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Floresta USA Incorporated ($304k), Family Assistance Ministries ($120k), Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ($110k).
- Does Russell W Butterworth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell W Butterworth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell W Butterworth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Russell W Butterworth Foundation based?
- Russell W Butterworth Foundation is based in CA.
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