· Private foundation
The Butler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| NEWPORT CENTRAL CATH 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 |
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 (FY20–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +282%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Cincinnatione grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
- ECEvery Child Succeedsone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 121 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 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 Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Butler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Butler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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