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The George and Anne Butler Foundation at a glance

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The George and Anne Butler 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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$115kEducation$97kReligion$64kYouth Development$42kHuman Services$26kRecreation & Sports$18kSocial Science$11kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$793k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL$15,000
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE$5,000
LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC$5,000
INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
CHARITY LEAGUE OF CORPUS CHRISTI$5,000
A PLACE FOR PEANUT-HORSE RESCUETHER$5,000
SUITS FOR SONS$5,000
CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CALIFORNIA YOUTH AG EXPO: $3k → 18%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%HOLLY HALL METHODIST CHRISTIAN RETI: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL: $20k → 14%A PLACE FOR PEANUT-HORSE RESCUETHER: $5k → 15%LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC: $5k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $8k → 17%TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%TEXAS AM KINGSVILLE: $5k → 27%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%CASSIDY JOINED FOR HOPE: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL: $15k → 14%A PLACE FOR PEANUT-HORSE RESCUETHER: $5k → 15%LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC: $5k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 17%GAY HILLMOUND HILLCEDAR HILL VFD: $3k → 9%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL: $15k → 14%LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC: $5k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $3k → 17%TEXAS AM FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS ST PARK AS: $10k → 14%LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC: $5k → 16%TEXAS AM FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL: $7k → 14%LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURC: $3k → 16%TEXAS AM FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS ST PARK AS: $5k → 14%BRENHAM STATE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $5k → 16%WASHINGTON CTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONS: $10k → 14%BRENHAM STATE SCHOOL: $8k → 14%CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 16%INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 16%INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 16%BRENHAM STATE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 16%BRENHAM STATE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%VOLUNTEER SERVICE COUNCIL-BRENHAM C: $3k → 14%GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 16%GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERV: $5k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $8k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $5k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $5k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $5k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $5k → 16%SUITS FOR SONS: $5k → 16%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$328k · 16 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$328k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+141%

Still filing today

25%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WO
    WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $57k
  • BS
    BRENHAM STATE SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $38k
  • SF
    Suits for Sons
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k

Funded once

  • WC
    WASHINGTON CTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TA
    TEXAS AM KINGSVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • WC
    Woodlands Charities Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Crawford-Zbanek Scholarship Foundation Inc

Award college scholarships

Education
2
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
—
3
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
5
Houston Geological Society Foundation
—
6
Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
7
Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Philanthropy
8
Texas Collegiate Wrestling Foundation
Recreation & Sports
9
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
10
Brazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association Inc

See Schedule OThe Brazoria County Fair provides Brazoria County youth with hands-on educational experiences by enabling them to exhibit livestock, agricultural products, scientific projects, and related initiatives. These opportunities…

Recreation & Sports
11
The Sons of the Republic of Texas

Study and preservation of texas history and various artifacts from the texas war of independence from mexico.

Arts & Culture
12
Ll Lambs Inc

Raising scholarship money for deserving applicants.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Suits for Sons. 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

11 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. 11 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL: $57,000 · OtherWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICALBRENHAM STATE SCHOOL: $37,500 · OtherBRENHAM STATE SCHOOLLORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,500 · OtherLORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $19,000 · OtherCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $18,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS ST PARK AS: $15,000 · OtherWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS ST PARK ASNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $10,500 · OtherWASHINGTON CTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONS: $10,000 · OtherA PLACE FOR PEANUT-HORSE RESCUETHER: $10,000 · OtherINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $52,500 · Other+13 moreTexas A&M Foundation: $22,500 · EducationTexas A&M Fou…Natl Santa Gertrudis Youth Foundation: $18,500 · EducationNatl Santa Ge…CHARITY LEAGUE OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $5,000 · EducationCHARITY LEAGU…Suits for Sons: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentSuits for S…CASSIDY JOINED FOR HOPE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASSIDY JOI…+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRENHAM MAIN STREET HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureBRENHAM M…WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$265,000Education$46,000Youth Development$39,000Arts & Culture$32,500Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRENHAM MAIN STREET HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNatl Santa Gertrudis Youth Foundation: $18,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY LEAGUE OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA YOUTH AG EXPO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Suits for Sons ↗
  • Who funds BRENHAM MAIN STREET HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Natl Santa Gertrudis Youth Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY LEAGUE OF CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
  • Who funds Woodlands Charities Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASSIDY JOINED FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA YOUTH AG EXPO ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 George and Anne Butler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Anne Butler 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 31 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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