· Private foundation
T B Butler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $52,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k23 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETIARC-East Texas Immigration Advocacy Resource Center | $10,000 |
| Therapet | $4,500 |
| Tyler Civic Theatre Center | $3,000 |
| Mentoring Alliance / Boys & Girls Club | $2,500 |
| Rahab's Retreat and Ranch | $2,500 |
| East Texas Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army of Tyler | $2,500 |
| CASA for Kids of East Texas | $2,000 |
| Literacy Council of Tyler | $2,000 |
| Discovery Science Place | $2,000 |
| East Texas Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| East Texas Youth Orchestra | $2,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Ministry, Inc. | $2,000 |
| Simply Grace House | $1,500 |
| Champions for Children of Smith County | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- DPDISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +213%
- ETEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +73%
- LCLITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF EAST TXone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CFCASA For Kids Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +57%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
None
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
To provide abused children with trained, court appointed volunteers who investigate, monitor and serve as advocates to help them secure a permanent and safe residence.
To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.
CASA of McLennan County recruits, trains, and supports volunteers who advocate for the best interest of children in foster care. We seek advocates whose identity mirrors the children we service, in order to provide informed, quality…
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
The mission of the Child Crisis Center is to protect children, newborn through fifteen years of age, from abuse/neglect by providing temporary short-term emergency shelter and family support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Therapet Animal Assisted Therapy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 57 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 DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TYLER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL LAYETTES ↗
- Who funds RAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · James I Perkins Family Foundation · United Way of Smith County · Bob L Herd 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 T B Butler 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.
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