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The Buttonwood Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$620k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.0MHealth$450kEnvironment$300kFood & Nutrition$150kArts & Culture$35k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 6 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$100k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UC
    UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $460k · revenue +13%
  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +82%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL
    2× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health
2
CalvertHealth Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
4
Chester County Community Foundation

The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.

Philanthropy
5
Chh Community Health

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.

Health
6
Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc

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…

Health
7
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
8
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
9
Charles River Community Health Inc

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.

Health
10
Chester River Hospital Center Inc

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

Health
11
Cheshire Medical Center

The mission of Cheshire Medical Center is to deliver compassionate and exceptional care to all we serve.

Health
12
Chespenn Health Services Inc

To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chester County Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $460,000 · EducationUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $350,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONUPLAND COUNTY DAY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT: $200,000 · OtherUPLAND COUNTY DAY SCHOOL …MENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE: $100,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY …Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY AND ART MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherBRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY AN…CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $150,000 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY…CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY…STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $200,000 · Science & TechSTROUD WATE…CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $150,000 · Food & NutritionLCH Health and Community Services: $100,000 · Human Services
Education$810,000Other$435,000Health$250,000Science & Tech$200,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Human Services$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $460,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $350,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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.

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.

Chester County Commun…FjcWa Speakman Family Fo…The Roemer FoundationSharp FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Chester County Community FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Buttonwood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buttonwood Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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