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The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc

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.

$211k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
44
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$51,650
Organizations funded a year
30 to 74
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
Arts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving44$211k11%
FY202338$142k16%
FY202233$118k30%
FY202150$262k20%
FY202030$244k10%
FY201953$265k19%
FY201869$552k25%
FY201774$1.1Mn/a
97% 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$1.9MHealth$609kEducation$194kCivil Rights$33kRecreation & Sports$29kEnvironment$26kInternational$18kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
TX

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 91 grantees
All grantees of The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Irish Georgian Society Inc$296,924721%
The Frick Collection$281,11380%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$263,27380%
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art$186,87316%
Preservation League of New York State$102,65582%
American Museum of Natural History$101,14550%
Hospice & Palliative Care Inc$100,67150%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$75,11970%
The Chamber Music Society of Utica$60,260636%
Visiting Nurse Service of New York$59,00080%
The Trustees of the New York Society Library$53,21650%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$45,00050%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$42,13020%
American Friends of the British Museum Inc$38,05612%
Milton Academy$32,00060%
Read to Lead Inc$30,00030%
Landmarks Society of Greater Utica Inc$25,500224%
Project Sunshine Inc$23,90030%
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Inc$22,70071%
Fresh Air Fund$20,00020%
Beatrix Farrand Society$20,00026%
The William George Agency for Children's Services Inc$20,00020%
Proctor Academy$20,00020%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$13,00060%
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute$13,00050%
Friends of Acadia$13,00050%
Fordham University$11,00020%
Middleton Place Foundation$10,50030%
Duke University$10,00010%
American Academy in Rome$10,00010%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$10,00010%
Carnegie Hill Neighbors Inc$10,00011%
Mount Desert Island Hospital$9,80070%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$8,75040%
Master Drawings Association Inc$8,15070%
Friends of Budapest Festival Orchestra Inc$7,77121%
New York City Ballet Inc$7,46540%
New York Botanical Garden$7,41030%
Institute for Bladder & Prostate$7,00035%
Village of Boonville$6,0001n/a
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve$5,44060%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$5,13020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Laguna Beach Live$4,50031%
World Monuments Fund Inc$4,4501n/a
Neighborhood House Club$3,50040%
Northeast Harbor Library$3,50070%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$3,50030%
Abbe Museum$3,50070%
American Friends of the Louvre Inc$3,40040%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$3,00020%
Women in Need Inc$3,00060%
St Agnes Cemetery of Utica$3,00060%
Maine Seacoast Mission$2,50030%
American Friends of the Musee Dorsay$2,28030%
The American Hospital of Paris Foundation$2,00020%
International Women's Health Coalition$2,00020%
Forestport Fire Fighters Inc$2,00021%
Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc$2,00081%
Blue Hill Troupe Ltd$2,00030%
Boonville Fire Company$2,00021%
Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc$2,00020%
Breakthrough T1d$2,00030%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$1,80060%
Independent Curators International$1,80010%
Sun Valley Fire Department$1,75070%
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc$1,50020%
Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc$1,50030%
Menil Foundation Inc$1,50030%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$1,0403n/a
Mdrc$1,00010%
Hope House Inc$1,00020%
The Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball Inc$1,00010%
The Fort Ticonderoga Association$1,00020%
American Foundation for Hungarian Literature And$1,00011%
Vigilant Engine Hook & Ladder Co Inc$70040%
The Drawing Center Inc$64020%
United Ukrainian American Relief Committee Inc$60010%
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc$51810%
Pennys Flight Foundation Inc$50010%
New York Historical Society$50020%
Mount Desert Island Historical Society$50010%
Old Braeswood Park Corporation$5001n/a
Charleston Library Society$43530%
The Periwinkle Foundation$40020%
Pen American Center Inc$27510%
Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music$25011%
Boonville Black River Canal Museum$2501n/a
Bilingual Education for Central America$2001n/a
Museum of Modern Art$13710%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$12010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($667k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Irish Georgian Society Inc: $296,924 over 7y, 21% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $281,113 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $263,273 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCarolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art: $186,873 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPreservation League of New York State: $102,655 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $101,145 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice & Palliative Care Inc: $100,671 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $75,119 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Utica: $60,260 over 6y, 36% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $59,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the New York Society Library: $53,216 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $42,130 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the British Museum Inc: $38,056 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMilton Academy: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRead to Lead Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLandmarks Society of Greater Utica Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetProject Sunshine Inc: $23,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Inc: $22,700 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeatrix Farrand Society: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThe William George Agency for Children's Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProctor Academy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMunson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDuke University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy in Rome: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Hill Neighbors Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMount Desert Island Hospital: $9,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaster Drawings Association Inc: $8,150 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Budapest Festival Orchestra Inc: $7,771 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $7,465 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $7,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Bladder & Prostate: $7,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $5,440 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $5,130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Beach Live: $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNeighborhood House Club: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast Harbor Library: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAbbe Museum: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% 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 85.

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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.

Colket Family FoundationPA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colket Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009

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 Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc give?
The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc reported 44 grants totaling $211,062 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Health (21%), Education (7%).
Who are The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Irish Georgian Society Inc ($297k), The Frick Collection ($281k), The Pierpont Morgan Library ($263k).
Does The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc 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 Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colket Family Foundation, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc, The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc based?
The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 137 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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