Alabama · Nonprofit
BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE
BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being THE SPARKPLUG FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Black Butterfly Collective does
Mission
The Black Butterfly Collective provides mutual aid, community healing, and access to resources for Black trans and gender-expansive people across the South. Programs: Beauty N Brunch (healing events) Joy Boxes (direct support + essentials) Green Guardians (food justice + gardens)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Black Butterfly Collective carried out its exempt purpose by providing community-based programs focused on mutual aid, healing, and food access for Black transgender and gender-expansive individuals. The organization conducted community events designed to provide safe and affirming spaces, including organized gatherings where participants received meals, wellness support, and access to community resources. Program expenses included event supplies, food, and related materials. The organization also distributed care packages ("Joy Boxes") containing essential goods such as hygiene products, safer sex supplies, and basic necessities. These were distributed on a low-barrier, need-based basis, with expenses including supplies, packaging, and distribution costs. In addition, the organization implemented community gardening and food access activities through its Green Guardians program, including installation of raised garden beds, distribution of gardening supplies, and support for small-scale food production. Expenses included soil, tools, and garden materials. The organization also provided community outreach, mutual aid support, and participation in local events aligned with its…
$104,669 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,669.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE?
- BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being THE SPARKPLUG FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,500 in grants to BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE?
- THE SPARKPLUG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing