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The Charles Butt Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24M
Granted FY2019
44
Grants FY2019
42
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$13,000,000
States reached, FY2019
6
Total assets, FY2019
$7.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Holdsworth Center$13,000,000114%
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge$4,400,00010%
Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation$250,0001n/a
Teach for America Inc$200,00010%
Hidalgo Foundation$200,000146%
Texas Public Radio$150,00012%
Yes Our Kids Can$100,0001n/a
The Menninger Clinic Foundation$100,00012%
P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc$100,0001n/a
San Patricio County$86,8001n/a
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All grantees of The Charles Butt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Holdsworth Center$13,000,000114%
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge$4,400,00010%
Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation$250,0001n/a
Teach for America Inc$200,00010%
Hidalgo Foundation$200,000146%
Texas Public Radio$150,00012%
Yes Our Kids Can$100,0001n/a
The Menninger Clinic Foundation$100,00012%
P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc$100,0001n/a
San Patricio County$86,8001n/a
Texas Tribune Inc$75,00010%
San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$69,10611%
Sa Youth$50,00012%
Mount Desert Island Historical Society$50,000118%
San Antonio Sports Foundation$40,00011%
The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation$30,00012%
The Chest Foundation$25,00011%
Alliance for Justice$25,00010%
Philanthropitch$15,00013%
TTARA Research Foundation$15,000163%
Youth Orchestras of San Antonio$10,00011%
Witte Museum$5,00010%
Sa2020$5,00011%
Humanities Texas$5,00010%
Artpace Inc (Audit)$5,00010%
University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association$5,00010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Charles Butt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Holdsworth Center: $13,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge: $4,400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHidalgo Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTexas Public Radio: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Menninger Clinic Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $69,106 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSa Youth: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMount Desert Island Historical Society: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSan Antonio Sports Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Chest Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlliance for Justice: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhilanthropitch: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTTARA Research Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetYouth Orchestras of San Antonio: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWitte Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSa2020: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHumanities Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArtpace Inc (Audit): $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

The Charles Butt Foun…San Antonio Area Foun…80-20 FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Charitable Foundation…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…John L Santikos Chari…The Brown Foundation …RICHTER RESPONSIBILIT…John & Florence Newma…The Nancy Wood Moorma…
The Charles Butt FoundationTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Charles Butt Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · 80-20 Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · RICHTER RESPONSIBILITY FUND FKA Holt Family Foundation · John & Florence Newman Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman 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.

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About The Charles Butt Foundation

How much does The Charles Butt Foundation give?
The Charles Butt Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $24,111,475 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does The Charles Butt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (89%), Community Improvement (4%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are The Charles Butt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: The Holdsworth Center ($13M), THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge ($4.4M), Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation ($250k).
Does The Charles Butt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles Butt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Charles Butt Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation, 80-20 Foundation.
Where is The Charles Butt Foundation based?
The Charles Butt Foundation is based in TX.

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 43 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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