Texas · Nonprofit
Golden Butterfly Bakers
Golden Butterfly Bakers (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Golden Butterfly Bakers does
Mission
Love on the least, the lost and the marginalized via the gift of quality baked goods to remind them that they have not been forgotten. Provide high qualitybaked goods to homeless organizations, transition and half-way housing facilities, and prisons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Houson Charities Program Golden Butterfly Bakers mission is to love on the least, the lost and the marginalized via the gift of quality baked goods to remind them that they are not forgotten. Golden Butterfly Bakers stands alone as the only non-profit organization in the Greater Houston area solely dedicated to providing baked goods to homeless and recovery organizations, and human trafficking and youth rescue facilities to foster hope and emotional healing. In 2025, we donated over 320,000 baked goods to our 14 Houston area recipients helping to bring a little taste of goodness to thousands of less fortunate Houstonians. Seeing a homeless child smile when they bite into one of our cookies
The Kairos prison ministry is a Christian faith-based ministry which addresses the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women, youth, and their families. By sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Chris Kairos hopes to change hearts, transform lives and impact the world. Golden Butterfly Bakers is blessed to provide table and forgiveness cookies for eight Kairos weekends in Texas. The weekends occur in the Spring and Fall. Each Kairos weekend receives between 180 & 300 dozen assorted cooki. The table cookies are available to the men in white and stewards used throughout the weekend to enjoy whenever there in the meeting room. The forgiveness cookies are bagged with a dozen cookies per bag.
Baked Goods Sales This program includes the revenue generated via the sale of baked good to St. John the Divine, Episcopal Church (Houston, Tx), and other entities and inviduals. Cookies are provided to St. John the Divine each Sunday. Other baked goods sales are provided on an as requested basis. The Proceeds from the baked goods sales are transferred to the Houston Charities program as fundraising revenue.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $65k to $91k (+39%).
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 Golden Butterfly Bakers’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Golden Butterfly Bakers’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
Golden Butterfly Bakers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
56% 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 Golden Butterfly Bakers.
“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
56% of Golden Butterfly Bakers'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
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
Golden Butterfly Bakers runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Golden Butterfly Bakers
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Golden Butterfly Bakers: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Golden Butterfly Bakers?
- Golden Butterfly Bakers (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Golden Butterfly Bakers have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,000 in grants to Golden Butterfly Bakers.
- Who is the largest funder of Golden Butterfly Bakers?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY 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 Golden Butterfly Bakers find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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