Texas · Private foundation
The Charles Butt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $7.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 77
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Charles Butt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $7.1M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $10M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $8.4M | 87% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $7.5M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge in America | $4,000,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sa Talent Inc Sa Works | $1,800,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation | $1,550,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Sam Houston State University | $1,008,758 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio | $621,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Editorial Projects in Education Inc | $600,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Texas Public Radio | $600,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Say Si | $500,000 | 1 | 28% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Charles Butt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · 80-20 Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Raise Your Hand for Texas Education Fund
How this is measured
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About The Charles Butt Foundation
- How much does The Charles Butt Foundation give?
- The Charles Butt Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $7,135,477 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 77 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Charles Butt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Civil Rights (8%), Employment (5%).
- Who are The Charles Butt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cambridge in America ($4.0M), Sa Talent Inc Sa Works ($1.8M), Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation ($1.6M).
- Does The Charles Butt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- 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 San Antonio Area Foundation, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Charles Butt Foundation based?
- The Charles Butt Foundation is based in TX.
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