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The Mark Butler Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET | $10,000 |
| WHITAKER CENTER | $6,095 |
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 (FY17–22, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- THTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION)3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +78%
- SWSCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $45k · revenue +10% · 28% of their budget
- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +0%
Funded once
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +80%- FOFriends of Pima Animal Care Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +30%
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +22%
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 mission of the center that cares is to deliver services to the people of the hill district community in pittsburgh, pa that enriches and empowers their lives academically, socially, culturally and recreationally. we service over 100…
The young women's christian association of carlisle, pennsylvania is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and girls and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. ywcas across the country are distinguished by…
The crispus attucks association of york, pennsylvania is a comprehensive non-profit entity that provides education services, human services, community development and affordable housing that enhances the quality of life for a diverse…
Organization's mission: the mission of cadekids is to promote children's potential for growth through comprehensive, school-based and community-based youth development and support programs that are begun at an early age and are designed to…
Ywca york is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
We started the karli short better tomorrow scholarship fund to provide financial security to students who are grappling with the fallout from gun violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diakon Child Family & Community Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Jake Owen Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds SCOTT WILLIS LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds Jake Owen Foundation ↗
- Who funds YATIMA GROUP FUND ↗
- Who funds WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds LADYLIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECTION 16H GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1 ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP CUMBERLAND ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Partnership for Better Health · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Community Aid Inc · United Way of the Capital Region · Ppl Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Mark Butler 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.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
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.
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