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The Butler Family Fund Grants
Private foundation · EIN 52-1786778 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025
- Total grants paid
- $1.8M
- Grants reported
- 66
- Median grant
- $25K
- Future commitments
- None reported
Giving by tax year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | $990.5K |
| 2024 | 32 | $809K |
Where The Butler Family Fund gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
The biggest individual grants on file, as reported by the foundation to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Tax year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HouseUS Fund | Washington, DC | HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all. | 2024 | $100K |
| HouseUS | Washington, DC | HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all. | 2025 | $100K |
| Just Futures Inititiative - Community Transforming Policing Fund | Minneapolis, MN | 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. | 2025 | $75K |
| Community Transforming Policing Fund | Minneapolis, MN | 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. | 2024 | $75K |
| National Homelessness Law Center | Washington, DC | For the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign | 2025 | $50K |
| SOS Fund | Oakland, CA | Directed to the Emergent Fund and the Immigrant Frontlines Fund within the Four Freedons Fund | 2025 | $50K |
| Tenant Union Federation | San Francisco, CA | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| CAAAV- Organizing Asian Communities | New York, NY | CAAAV organizes Asian immigrants in New York City to ensure that working class people make decisions over their own homes and neighborhoods. | 2025 | $50K |
| Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | HRCSF is a multiracial, multilingual tenant rights organization working to stop the displacement of working-class communities of color in San Francisco. | 2025 | $50K |
| Free DC | Washington, DC | Free DC is a grassroots organizing campaign to fight for noninterference in home rule for DC. | 2025 | $50K |
| ACT 4 SA | San Antonio, TX | ACT 4SA is a grassroots organization striving to center the well-being of their community without a reliance on police or prisons. | 2025 | $50K |
| Miami Workers Center | Miami, FL | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| Community Resource Hub | Philadelphia, PA | Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns | 2024 | $50K |
| North Carolina Tenants Union | Chapel Hill, NC | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| Equity and Transformation | Chicago, IL | EAT is a community-led organization seeking to build social and economic equity for Black workers engaged in the informal economy. | 2025 | $50K |
| CHISPA OC Education Fund | Los Angeles, CA | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| African American Roundtable | Milwaukee, WI | 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. | 2024 | $50K |
| NOAH - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope | Nashville, TN | to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals. | 2024 | $50K |
| Funders for Justice | Calabasas, CA | 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 priorities. | 2024 | $50K |
| Austin Justice Coalition | Austin, TX | To organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system. | 2024 | $50K |
| For the Many | Washingont, DC | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | Minneapolis, MN | IX organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobilize for safe and affordable housing. | 2025 | $50K |
| VOCAL-NY | Brooklyn, NY | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| Bozeman Tenants Education Fund | Los Angeles, CA | 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. | 2025 | $50K |
| Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute (ACRE Institute) | Chicago, IL | for research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal reform. | 2024 | $30K |
How to apply
This foundation reports on its 990-PF that it only makes contributions to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications.
About this data
Figures are aggregated from The Butler Family Fund's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF e-file archive.