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The David Butler Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$784k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTRONIA: $500 → 14%READYKIDS: $5k → 8%NEWS: $300 → 10%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $8k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $2k → 8%ON THE MOVE (VOICES): $200 → 9%NEWS: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 13 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$129k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+30%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NIMBUS ARTS
    4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    IF GIVEN A CHANCE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +96%
  • NC
    NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +531%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • KT
    KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • KI
    KQED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Napa Valley Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Napa Valley Grapegrowers Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Npr Foundation

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…

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5
Epacenter

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.

Arts & Culture
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Music in the Vineyards Inc

To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.

Arts & Culture
9
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

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.

Health
10
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
12
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAND TRUST OF NAPA CO: $35,000 · OtherLAND TRUST OF NAPA COIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE: $15,500 · OtherKEEPING THE BLUES ALIVEFRONT PORCH: $15,000 · OtherFRONT PORCHUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE HAMANN FOUNDATIONNapa Valley Vintners: $9,048 · OtherNapa Valley VintnersNAPA FOOD BANK: $8,280 · OtherNAPA FOOD BANKCOPC FAM CENTER: $6,000 · Other+13 more: $15,746 · Other+13 moreNIMBUS ARTS: $20,651 · Arts & CultureNIMBUS ARTSKQED INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCdi Rosa Preserve: $5,050 · Arts & Culturedi Rosa PreserveFreshgrass Public Foundation: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,903 · Arts & Culture+3 moreINTERNATIONAL CANCER EXPERT CORPS INC: $10,000 · HealthINTERNATIONA…Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley: $9,350 · HealthAuction Napa…OLE HEALTH: $7,000 · HealthOLE HEALTHTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $3,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST: $15,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,100 · Human ServicesIF GIVEN A CHANCE: $15,100 · EducationNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $800 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $100 · Youth Development
Other$154,574Arts & Culture$42,604Health$30,350Environment$20,250Human Services$15,600Education$15,100Philanthropy$2,800Youth Development$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Craig and Kathryn Hal…Npt Charitable Asset …E Richard Jones Famil…Winiarski Family Foun…Peter a & Vernice H G…The San Francisco Fou…The Hilltop FoundationPhelps FoundationThe Boeschen Family F…The Farkas Family Fou…Napa Valley Vintners …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The David Butler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Butler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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