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The Butler Family Fund

Name: The Butler Family Fund grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

164
grants reported: $3.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

community housing organizing communities criminal justice affordable system

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

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Austin Justice Coalition3 grants · $150,000
Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope3 grants · $150,000
Funders for Justice2 grants · $100,000
Vocal-Ny3 grants · $100,000
We Are Down Home2 grants · $100,000
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia3 grants · $100,000
Community Resource Hub2 grants · $100,000
Miami Workers Center3 grants · $100,000
African American Roundtable2 grants · $100,000
Houseus Fund1 grant · $100,000

Giving over time

$1.0M

2022

$954,250

2023

$809,000

2024

$990,450

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 164 grants.

$100,000
Houseus · Washington, DC · 2025
HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all.
$100,000
Houseus Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all.
$75,000
Just Futures Inititiative - Community Transforming Policing Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Just Futures is a donor collaborative housed at Borealis Philanthropy that supports groups working to build power, increase police accountability and create transformative community-based safety.
$75,000
Community Transforming Policing Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
CTFP is a donor collaborative housed at Borealis Philanthropy that supports groups working to build power, increase police accountability and create preventive, transformative community-based safety strategies.
$50,000
Act 4 Sa · San Antonio, TX · 2025
ACT 4SA is a grassroots organization striving to center the well-being of their community without a reliance on police or prisons.
$50,000
Bozeman Tenants Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
BTU is a city-wide tenant union dedicated to building a world in which safe, dignified housing is available to all, regardless of race, income, or any other identity.
$50,000
Caaav- Organizing Asian Communities · New York, NY · 2025
CAAAV organizes Asian immigrants in New York City to ensure that working class people make decisions over their own homes and neighborhoods.
$50,000
Chispa Oc Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
CHISPA OC is a Latinx organizing ecosystem in Orange County dedicated to harnessing the power of young people through organizing, policy advocacy, and electoral power.
$50,000
Equity and Transformation · Chicago, IL · 2025
EAT is a community-led organization seeking to build social and economic equity for Black workers engaged in the informal economy.
$50,000
For the Many · Washingont, DC · 2025
For the Many is a grassroots, multiracial, intergenerational, and bi-lingual movement in rural upstate New York centering the needs of working-class people in multi-issue campaigns.
$50,000
Free Dc · Washington, DC · 2025
Free DC is a grassroots organizing campaign to fight for noninterference in home rule for DC.
$50,000
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2025
HRCSF is a multiracial, multilingual tenant rights organization working to stop the displacement of working-class communities of color in San Francisco.
$50,000
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
IX organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobilize for safe and affordable housing.
$50,000
Miami Workers Center · Miami, FL · 2025
Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown immigrant women-headed households in Miami Dade to build the power and capacity of renter communities.
$50,000
National Homelessness Law Center · Washington, DC · 2025
For the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign
$50,000
North Carolina Tenants Union · Chapel Hill, NC · 2025
North Carolina Tenants Union is a statewide union of local tenant unions aiming to democratize housing in NC and build a housing system that prioritizes people over profit.
$50,000
Sos Fund · Oakland, CA · 2025
Directed to the Emergent Fund and the Immigrant Frontlines Fund within the Four Freedons Fund
$50,000
Tenant Union Federation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
TUF is a union of unions dedicated to establishing tenants as a powerful political class to preserve affordable housing, win tenant protections, and develop alternative housing models.
$50,000
Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Restricted to VOCAL-KY which builds power among low-income people affected by the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness to create healthy and just communities.
$50,000
African American Roundtable · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
African American Roundtable organizes to reduce the funds in the Milwaukee city budget for harmful police practices and reallocate the funds towards community-identified priorities.
$50,000
Austin Justice Coalition · Austin, TX · 2024
To organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system.
$50,000
Community Resource Hub · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns
$50,000
Funders for Justice · Calabasas, CA · 2024
FFJ is a national network and organizing platform of funders working to build transformative community safety and justice systems, including divesting from the criminal legal system and investing in community-identified… read allFFJ is a national network and organizing platform of funders working to build transformative community safety and justice systems, including divesting from the criminal legal system and investing in community-identified priorities. less
$50,000
Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope · Nashville, TN · 2024
to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals.
$50,000
African American Roundtable · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
OAK Grant: African American Roundtable organizes to reduce the funds in the Milwaukee city budget for harmful police practices and reallocate the funds towards community-identified priorities.
$50,000
Austin Justice Coalition · Austin, TX · 2023
Oak grant: to Austin Justice Coalition organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system.
$50,000
Community Resource Hub · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
OAK Grant: Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns
$50,000
Faith in Indiana · Inidianapolis, IN · 2023
OAK grant: A joint project of Faith in Indiana and the Iman Center to advance housing justice and win a fully funded statewide non-police crisis response system.
$50,000
Funders for Justice · Calabasas, CA · 2023
OAK GRANT: Funders for Justice is updating and launching a toolkit for grantmakers, donors, and funder affinity groups, to divest from the criminal legal system and invest in community-identified priorities.
$50,000
Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope · Nashville, TN · 2023
OAK grant: to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals.
$50,000
We Are Down Home · Greensboro, NC · 2023
OAK Grant: or leadership development, civic engagement, and multiracial movement building across rural and urban areas in North Carolina.
$50,000
Women On the Rise · East Point, GA · 2023
Oak Grant: Women on the Rise, through the Communities over Cages campaign, works to close an Atlanta jail and repurpose the building for community-identified programs.
$50,000
Austin Justice Coalition · Austin, TX · 2022
Oak grant: to Austin Justice Coalition organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system.
$50,000
Faith in Indiana · Inidianapolis, IN · 2022
OAK grant: A joint project of Faith in Indiana and the Iman Center to advance housing justice and win a fully funded statewide non-police crisis response system.
$50,000
Hmong American Women'S Association Fiscal Sponsor for African American Ro · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
OAK Grant: African American Roundtable organizes to reduce the funds in the Milwaukee city budget for harmful police practices and reallocate the funds towards community-identified priorities.
$50,000
New Venture Fund Fiscal Sponsor for Community Resource Hub · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
OAK Grant: Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns
$50,000
Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope · Nashville, TN · 2022
OAK grant: to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals.
$50,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Fiscal Sponsor for Funders F · Calabasas, CA · 2022
OAK GRANT: Funders for Justice is updating and launching a toolkit for grantmakers, donors, and funder affinity groups, to divest from the criminal legal system and invest in community-identified priorities.
$50,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Fiscal Sponsor for Women On · East Point, GA · 2022
Oak Grant: Women on the Rise, through the Communities over Cages campaign, works to close an Atlanta jail and repurpose the building for community-identified programs.
$50,000
We Are Down Home · Greensboro, NC · 2022
OAK Grant: for leadership development, civic engagement, and multiracial movement building across rural and urban areas in North Carolina.
$30,000
Action Center On Race and the Economy Institute (Acre Institute) · Chicago, IL · 2024
for research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal reform.
$30,000
Action Center On Race and the Economy Institute (Acre Institute) · Chicago, IL · 2023
for research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal reform.
$30,000
Detroit Justice Center · Detroit, MI · 2023
Detroit Justice Centers community lawyering program works alongside the community to transform the criminal legal system, create economic opportunities, and promote equitable and just cities.
$30,000
Action Center On Race and the Economy Institute (Acre Institute) · Chicago, IL · 2022
for research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal reform.
$30,000
Common Counsel Foundation Fiscal Sponsor for Movement for Black Lives · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support for hub to coordinate actions, messages, and campaigns to influence policy and systems that impact Black people.
$30,000
Communities of Color United · Austin, TX · 2022
Communities of Color United works to implement the recommendations of Austins Reimagining Public Safety Task Force.
$30,000
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support, including work to divest resources from the criminal legal system and invest them in communities.
$25,000
Global Impact · Washington, DC · 2025
The Alabama Solution Impact Campaign seeks to amplify the documentary The Alabama Solution and its expose of the deadliest state prison system in the country.
$25,000
Action St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from landlords abuse and neglect.
$25,000
Community Resource Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty and its adverse impacts on community and family stability.
$25,000
Democratizing Justice Innovation Fund · New York, NY · 2024
FS Goodnation Foundation
$25,000
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
X organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobilize for a safe and affordable housing.
$25,000
Justice 4 Housing · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
for outreach, organizing and advocacy to build community power, advance community goals and increase housing options for justice-involved individuals.
$25,000
Kc Tenants · Kansas City, MO · 2024
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely affordable home.
$25,000
Life After Release · Camp Springs, MD · 2024
Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison and off parole and probation.
$25,000
Mhaction · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and health.
$25,000
Miami Workers Center · Miami, FL · 2024
Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown immigrant women-headed households in Miami Dade to build the power and capacity of renter communities.
$25,000
People'S Advocacy Institute · Jackson, MS · 2024
to incubate community driven, designed and led criminal legal reform policy, practice and programs in Mississippi. FS Highlander Center
$25,000
Public Advocates · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support for Alliance for Housing Justice, a network of grassroots organizing groups centering housing as a human right.
$25,000
Texas Organizing Project · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Texas Organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black and Latino communities.
$25,000
Action St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2023
Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from landlords abuse and neglect.
$25,000
African Communities Together · New York, NY · 2023
To expand organizing among African immigrant tenants in Northern Virginia against displacement and loss of affordable housing units.
$25,000
Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support to end the extreme sentencing of youth and for re-entry programs for former juvenile lifers.
$25,000
Community Resource Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty and its adverse impacts on community and family stability.
$25,000
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
IX organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobilize for a safe and affordable housing.
$25,000
Kc Tenants · Kansas City, MO · 2023
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely affordable home.
$25,000
Law for Black Lives · New York, NY · 2023
L4BL organizes, conducts budget analysis, supports capacity development, and creates new narratives with the goal of moving money out of the criminal legal system and into community investments.
$25,000
Life After Release · Camp Springs, MD · 2023
Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison and off parole and probation.
$25,000
Mhaction · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and health.
$25,000
Miami Workers Center · Miami, FL · 2023
Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown immigrant women-headed households in Miami Dade to build the power and capacity of renter communities.
$25,000
One Dc · Washington, DC · 2023
to advance, develop, and preserve racial justice and economic equity by fighting economic disenfranchisement among Black and working-class communities in the District of Columbia.
$25,000
People'S Advocacy Institute · Jackson, MS · 2023
to incubate community driven, designed and led criminal legal reform policy, practice and programs in Mississippi. FS Highlander Center
$25,000
Public Advocates · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support for Alliance for Housing Justice, a network of grassroots organizing groups centering housing as a human right.
$25,000
Texas Organizing Project · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Texas Organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black and Latino communities.
$25,000
Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
VOCAL-NY is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness.
$25,000
Action St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2022
Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from landlords abuse and neglect.
$25,000
African Communities Together · New York, NY · 2022
To expand organizing among African immigrant tenants in Northern Virginia against displacement and loss of affordable housing units.
$25,000
Community Resource Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty and its adverse impacts on community and family stability.
$25,000
Detroit Justice Center · Detroit, MI · 2022
Detroit Justice Centers community lawyering program works alongside the community to transform the criminal legal system, create economic opportunities, and promote equitable and just cities.
$25,000
Highlander Research & Education Center Fiscal Sponsor for People'S Advoc · Jackson, MS · 2022
to incubate community driven, designed and led criminal legal reform policy, practice and programs in Mississippi.
$25,000
Kc Tenants · Kansas City, MO · 2022
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely affordable home.
$25,000
Neo Philanthropy Fiscal Sponsor for Law for Black Lives · New York, NY · 2022
L4BL organizes, conducts budget analysis, supports capacity development, and creates new narratives with the goal of moving money out of the criminal legal system and into community investments.
$25,000
One Dc · Washington, DC · 2022
to advance, develop, and preserve racial justice and economic equity by fighting economic disenfranchisement among Black and working-class communities in the District of Columbia.
$25,000
Right To the City Fiscal Sponsor for Homes for All South · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Restricted to Homes for All South, a network of member-led, grassroots housing justice organizations in the South.
$25,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Fiscal Sponsor for Curb (Cal · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
CURB supports a statewide coalition in California advancing the transformation of the state's criminal legal system.
$25,000
Texas Organizing Project · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Texas organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black and Latino communities.
$25,000
Tides Center Fiscal Sponsor for Mhaction · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and health.
$25,000
Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
VOCAL-NY is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness.
$24,500
Project South Fiscal Sponsor for Southern Power Fund · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Project support dedicated to the Southern Power Fund to support grassroots organizations led by Black, Latinx, Immigrant, LGBQTI, low-income and rural people across the US South.
$20,000
Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
BLM OKCs Death Penalty Moratorium Project is working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma.
$20,000
Texas Center for Justice and Equity · Austin, TX · 2024
TCJE conducts community outreach, organizing, and advocacy to shrink the criminal punishment system and foster safer communities.
$20,000
Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
BLM OKCs Death Penalty Moratorium Project is working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma.
$20,000
Justice 4 Housing · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2023
for outreach, organizing and advocacy to build community power, advance community goals and increase housing options for justice-involved individuals.
$20,000
Justice 4 Housing · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2022
for outreach, organizing and advocacy to build community power, advance community goals and increase housing options for justice-involved individuals.
$20,000
Private Equity Stakeholders Project · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support to challenge evictions, rent increases and foreclosures by corporate landlords during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
$20,000
Southern Center for Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Project support dedicated to supporting the death penalty abolition movement in Black communities across the South through organizing, outreach, and education.
$20,000
Tides Foundation Fiscal Sponsor for Life After Release · Camp Springs, MD · 2022
Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison and off parole and probation.
$15,000
People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
The Homes Guarantee Campaign works towards safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing for everyone.
$15,000
Texas Center for Justice and Equity · Austin, TX · 2023
TCJE conducts community outreach, organizing, and advocacy to shrink the criminal punishment system and foster safer communities.
$15,000
Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support for resentencing and reentry for former youth sentenced to life in prison.

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