The Butler Family Fund

What they fund

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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.

3 grants matching “vocal” · $100,000

• $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.

• $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

  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.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• 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

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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