· Private foundation
The Buttonwood Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPLAND COUNTY DAY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT | $200,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE | $100,000 |
| LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER | $100,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY AND ART MUSEUM | $35,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
- UCUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $460k · revenue +13%
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +82%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL2× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.
The mission of CHH Community Health is to improve community wellness, strengthen access to healthcare, and further clinical education by facilitating student and resident teaching and hands-on clinical experiences.
To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…
Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.
Chester river hospital center (crhc) is an acute care hospital that serves the residents of kent and queen anne's counties and portions of caroline and cecil counties
The mission of Cheshire Medical Center is to deliver compassionate and exceptional care to all we serve.
To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chester County Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mental Health & Recovery Services of Jackson Hole. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · Fjc · Wa Speakman Family Foundation · The Roemer Foundation · Sharp Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Buttonwood Family 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.