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The Butler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $381k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $521k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC INC | $104,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCAT | $101,000 |
| NORTHERN KY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| NEWPORT CENTRAL CATH HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL-NKY | $44,977 |
| DCCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $35,943 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| CASA OF THE NORTHERN BLUEGRASS REG | $26,300 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECH COLLEGE | $25,650 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $25,000 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ADOPT A CLASS | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $637k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SCSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC4× · 2021–2024 · $360k · revenue +12%
- TMTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $109k · revenue +54%
- LLLife Learning Center Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Cincinnatione grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
- HFHOLLAND FOUNDATION FOR SIGHTone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
Strengthen, unite, and mobilize education, business and community partners in Northern Kentucky to advance student success and wellbeing from early childhood through post-secondary/career.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BE CONCERNED INC ↗
- Who funds Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASTER PROVISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Butler Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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