· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION | $650,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN | $468,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $406,000 |
| SA TALENT | $300,000 |
| TEXAS A&M - SAN ANTONIO | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSA TALENT INC SA WORKS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +22% · 27% of their budget
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +18%
- MMMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS2× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CICAMBRIDGE IN AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $4.0M · revenue -13%
- RYRAISE YOUR HAND TEXASone grant, 2023 · $3.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2022 · $562k
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.
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
Represent public education employees in labor related matters, to include matters specific to wages, hours, and thier condition of employment.
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
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…
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.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 146 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
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- 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles Butt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles Butt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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