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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 FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$27MCivil Rights$3.0MEmployment$1.8MArts & Culture$1.5MScience & Tech$1.1MYouth Development$954kHealth$776kPhilanthropy$634kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.2M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A&M SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION$650,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN$468,000
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$406,000
TEXAS A&M - SAN ANTONIO$300,000
SA TALENT$300,000
ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC$300,000
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY$283,000
TEXAS A&M - COLLEGE STATION$252,000
MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE$250,000
UP PARTNERSHIP$200,000
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY$196,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$186,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - RIO GRANDE VALLEY$180,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN UTEACH$160,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - EL PASO$152,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%SPURS GIVE: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
PA
CA
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NC
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TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 72 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

72 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
57

Total granted

$25M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+29%

Still filing today

29%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthScience & TechOther

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

  • ST
    SA TALENT INC SA WORKS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +22% · 27% of their budget
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +18%
  • MM
    MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $4.0M · revenue -13%
  • RY
    RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2022 · $562k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
2
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership

The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…

Education
3
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
5
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
6
San Antonio Teachers Council

Represent public education employees in labor related matters, to include matters specific to wages, hours, and thier condition of employment.

7
Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science and Technology

To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.

Health
8
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
9
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
10
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
11
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

12
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Holdsworth Center and the most unlike its peers is Tandem Philanthropies Fka the Ark Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%18%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr11%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr11%32%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
14%
8,691/62,242

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

57 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 146 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
34/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS — $3,000,000 · OtherRAISE YOUR HAND TEXASTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY — $1,244,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYCENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE & TECH NETWORK — $1,100,000 · OtherSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,008,758 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN — $975,400 · Other+98 more — $13,620,075 · Other+98 moreSA TALENT INC SA WORKS — $1,800,000 · EducationSA TALENT INC SA WORKSTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation — $1,550,000 · EducationTexas A&M San Antonio Found…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION I…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,040,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO — $621,800 · EducationOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVER…Teach for America Inc — $600,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTrinity University — $380,467 · EducationSouthern Methodist University — $311,049 · Education+13 more — $1,525,300 · Education+13 moreCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $4,000,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE I…EDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC — $600,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $600,000 · Arts & CultureSan Antonio Report — $315,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureHIDALGO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $351,000 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTANDEM PHILANTHROPIES FKA THE ARK FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $14,044 · PhilanthropySAY SI — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentIGNITE MINDSHIFT IMPACT INC — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $500,000 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Health
Other$20,948,233Education$9,328,616International$4,000,000Arts & Culture$1,840,000Philanthropy$815,044Youth Development$685,000Health$600,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $4,000,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSA TALENT INC SA WORKS — $1,800,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation — $1,550,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,040,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO — $621,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC — $600,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $600,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAY SI — $500,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTrinity University — $380,467 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $351,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetSan Antonio Report — $315,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $311,049 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $276,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Postsecondary Strategy Institute — $224,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $210,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION XIII — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTANDEM PHILANTHROPIES FKA THE ARK FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWe Go Public — $170,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM — $150,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $143,400 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTEXAS LEADERSHIP CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCenter For Applied Science & Technology Network — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHIDALGO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word — $98,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE MINDSHIFT IMPACT INC — $85,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO — $80,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTTARA Research Foundation — $75,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetRESTORE EDUCATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SCHOOL BOARD PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetWitte Museum — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION 12 — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHAPE Community Center — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
  • Who funds SA TALENT INC SA WORKS
  • Who funds Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation
  • Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO
  • Who funds EDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds SAY SI
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
  • Who funds Trinity University
  • Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc
  • Who funds San Antonio Report
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds National Postsecondary Strategy Institute

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX49× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Charles Butt 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to The Charles Butt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Charles Butt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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