Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Butler Family Fund
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.
- $990k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Butler Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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 | 32 | $960k | 81% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $809k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $954k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.0M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $548k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.0M | n/a |
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Organized for Action and Hope | $150,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Austin Justice Coalition | $150,000 | 3 | 10% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| We Are Down Home | $115,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Miami Workers Center Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Faith in Indiana | $100,000 | 2 | 4% |
| African American Roundtable | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | $90,000 | 3 | 1% |
| HousingNOLA | $90,000 | 1 | 17% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Butler Family Fund supplied at peak.
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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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Center · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Butler Family Fund
- How much does The Butler Family Fund give?
- The Butler Family Fund reported 34 grants totaling $990,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Butler Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (23%), Crime & Legal (14%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are The Butler Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nashville Organized for Action and Hope ($150k), Austin Justice Coalition ($150k), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($125k).
- Does The Butler Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Butler Family Fund 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 The Butler Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Butler Family Fund based?
- The Butler Family Fund is based in DC.
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