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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.

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$784k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The David Butler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$35k67%
FY20235$28k100%
FY20222$15k50%
FY20214$16k25%
FY202014$68k57%
FY201913$41k85%
FY201810$47k50%
FY201710$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$66kHealth$57kEnvironment$55kHuman Services$42kEducation$17kYouth Development$15kPhilanthropy$12kCommunity Improvement$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The David Butler Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNimbus Arts: $20,651 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetIf Given a Chance: $15,100 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNapa County Land Trust: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKqed Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Cancer Expert Corps Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetShelter for Help in Emergency Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAuction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley: $9,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNapa Valley Vintners: $9,048 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOle Health: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetdi Rosa Preserve: $5,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetReadykids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Climate Collaborative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Women's Initiative: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreshgrass Public Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNapa Valley Jazz Society: $1,250 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $1,153 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paramount Theater Foundation in F/K/A the Paramount Theater Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOle Health Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jazz Organization: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentronia: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNews: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOn the Move: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeens Connect: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 25.

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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.

Community Foundation of the Napa ValleyCA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David Butler Family Foundation

How much does The David Butler Family Foundation give?
The David Butler Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The David Butler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Health (20%), Environment (20%).
Who are The David Butler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nimbus Arts ($21k), If Given a Chance ($15k), Napa County Land Trust ($15k).
Does The David Butler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David Butler Family 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 David Butler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Napa Valley, Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation, Npt Charitable Asset Trust.
Where is The David Butler Family Foundation based?
The David Butler Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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