· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $925k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HouseUS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Bozeman Tenants Education Fund | $50,000 |
| Miami Workers Center | $50,000 |
| North Carolina Tenants Union | $50,000 |
| SOS Fund | $50,000 |
| CHISPA OC Education Fund | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Equity and Transformation | $50,000 |
| For the Many | $50,000 |
| Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco | $50,000 |
| ACT 4 SA | $50,000 |
| National Homelessness Law Center | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CAAAV- Organizing Asian Communities | $50,000 |
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, $487k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Butler Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 26 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $805k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +23%
- AJAustin Justice Coalition3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +5%
NEO Philanthropy Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HFHouseUS Fundone grant, 2024 · $100k
- WOWomen on the Rise Fiscal Sponsor Social and Environmental Entrepreneursone grant, 2020 · $100k
- HHousingNOLAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +108%
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 159 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 NASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE ↗
- Who funds Austin Justice Coalition ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds WE ARE DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC ↗
- Who funds Miami Workers Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith in Indiana ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds HousingNOLA ↗
- Who funds KC TENANTS ↗
- Who funds ACTION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Community Resource Initiative ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY ↗
- Who funds Detroit Justice Center ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE AFTER RELEASE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Butler Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Butler Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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