New York · Nonprofit
BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC
BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,680 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Blue Butterfly Foundation Inc does
Mission
At the blue butterfly foundation, we believe that every child has the right to nutritious food, proper shelter, a loving home, a caring community, and a high-quality education. Our focus is on the impoverished country of nepal in south asia, where we seek to help anyone who longs for a better life, regardless of gender, age, background, religion or ethnicity. Much of our work focuses on victims of child labor, trafficking, and enslavement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We concentrated on helping 5 of our young nepali adults who come from very vulnerable backgrounds and who we've supported for many years come to the us to go the college. So far, 2 students have arrived, and we've been working tirelessly to get the other 3 young adults here.
$84,283 spent90% of program spendingCommunity home in nepal for covid orphans. The pandemic has left these children extremely vulnerable to exploitation, trafficking, and enslavement, and their livelihoods are endangered. Our program-titled project heart (healing, empowerment, advocacy, resilience, and togetherness)-will include two safe, loving homes (one for girls and one for boys), three nutritious meals a day, proper bodily and mental healthcare, academic education, vocational training, life skills, and emotional and social learning programs
$0 spent0% of program spendingResource center for nepalese american women.we seek to create a resource center, both physically and electronically, for nepalese american women throughout the us. Based in queens, new york, we want to have at least a 2-person staff and a physical office located in queens that provides help and resources for women both in close proximity and throughout the country.
$9,364 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,647.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $58k to $43k (−25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lauren Yanks
President & executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $72.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC’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
BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC?
- BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,680 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $63,680 in grants to BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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