· Private foundation
The David Butler Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $15,000 |
| FRONT PORCH | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOC | $4,000 |
| WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $2,000 |
| PARAMOUNT THEATER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NANIMBUS ARTS4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +27%
- IGIF GIVEN A CHANCE5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +96%
- NCNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +531%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- KTKEEPING THE BLUES ALIVEone grant, 2020 · $16k
- KIKQED INCone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The napa valley museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enriching the cultural fabric of our community through exhibitions, collections, educational programs and creative activities that promote knowledge and…
Cultivate viticultural excellence and environmental stewardship for the napa valley, to be a local and global leader for a science-based approach to grape growing and agricultural stewardship, to ensure the viability and resiliency of…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NIMBUS ARTS ↗
- Who funds IF GIVEN A CHANCE ↗
- Who funds NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CANCER EXPERT CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vintners ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds di Rosa Preserve ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Freshgrass Public Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY JAZZ SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRONIA ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Npt Charitable Asset Trust · E Richard Jones Family Foundation Mr E Richard Jones · Winiarski Family Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Hilltop Foundation · Phelps Foundation · The Boeschen Family Foundation · The Farkas Family Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community 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 David Butler Family 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.
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.