· Private foundation
T B Butler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Rahab's Retreat and Ranch | $2,500 |
| East Texas Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Mentoring Alliance / Boys & Girls Club | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army of Tyler | $2,500 |
| East Texas Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| East Texas Youth Orchestra | $2,000 |
| Literacy Council of Tyler | $2,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Ministry, Inc. | $2,000 |
| Discovery Science Place | $2,000 |
| CASA for Kids of East Texas | $2,000 |
| Mosaic Counseling Centers of East Texas | $1,500 |
| East Texas Crisis Center, Inc. | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2023, 18 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
How this is measured
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%
- EDEBENZER DAY CARE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 52 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 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 ↗
- Who funds BULLARD COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization T B Butler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T B Butler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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