Kentucky · Private foundation
The Butler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $973k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $104,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The Butler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 57 | $973k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $924k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $792k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $962k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan Car Care Clinic | $360,335 | 4 | 23% |
| Holy Cross High School | $240,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Notre Dame Academy | $190,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Thomas More University Inc | $109,375 | 5 | 0% |
| Life Learning Center Inc | $100,553 | 4 | 3% |
| The Philanthropy Roundtable | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc | $65,667 | 4 | 1% |
| Brighton Center Inc | $57,676 | 5 | 0% |
| Interchurch Organization Inc | $53,790 | 5 | 3% |
| Be Concerned Inc | $52,359 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Butler Foundation 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: The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati
How this is measured
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About The Butler Foundation
- How much does The Butler Foundation give?
- The Butler Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $972,507 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Butler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Human Services (28%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Butler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Samaritan Car Care Clinic ($360k), Holy Cross High School ($240k), Notre Dame Academy ($190k).
- Does The Butler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Butler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Butler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky.
- Where is The Butler Foundation based?
- The Butler Foundation is based in KY.
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