· Private foundation
The Butler Family 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,062,365 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $500,000 |
| DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA | $355,866 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER | $26,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $25,000 |
| CLARKE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOMACHO | $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 (FY20–25, $676k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 9 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DMDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +38% · 29% of their budget
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago5× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +34%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE5× · 2020–2025 · $782k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM & AQUARIUM (DUBUQUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- LOLYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO --PLEDGE 2021-2025one grant, 2021 · $500k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUEone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +0%
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 122 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 DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI DRIFTLESS REGIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest Family Services 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: Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sirk Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Butler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Butler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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