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The Butler Family Fund: 34 grants to organizations, $990,450 (tax year ended December 2025)
The Butler Family Fund, a private foundation in Washington, DC, paid 34 grants to organizations totaling $990,450 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on April 16, 2026. The largest was $100,000 to Houseus in Washington, DC for houseus supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all..
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- EIN
- 521786778
- Based in
- Washington, DC
- Assets
- $10,899,328
- Grants paid
- $990,450
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed April 16, 2026, IRS object ID 202631069349100433. It reported $990,450 in grants paid; 34 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houseus | Washington, DC | HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Free DC | Washington, DC | Free DC is a grassroots organizing campaign to fight for noninterference in home rule for DC. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | Employment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Homelessness Law Center | Washington, DC | For the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Housing and shelter | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sos Fund | Oakland, CA | Directed to the Emergent Fund and the Immigrant Frontlines Fund within the Four Freedons Fund | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Impact | Washington, DC | 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. | International, foreign affairs and national security | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Crisis | London, UK | for general support | $5,400 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mamasuze | London, UK | for general operating support | $5,400 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Alma Backyard Farms | Los Angeles, CA | for general operating support | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Communities Foundation of Texas | Dallas, TX | For the Foundation for Brain Health Advances | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation | Brookline, MA | for general operating support | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fresh Start Edinburgh | Edinburgh, UK | for general operating support | $2,700 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Smart Works Scotland | Edinburgh, UK | for general operating support | $2,700 | apps.irs.gov | |
| First Friends of New Jersey and New York | Kearney, NJ | for general operating support | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Make the Road By Walking | Brooklyn, NY | For Make the Road NJ | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Congregation Shearith Israel | Dallas, TX | For the Ladder Project | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute To End Mass Incarceraton | Cambridge, MA | for general operating support | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Smart Justice California | San Francisco, CA | for general operating support | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Last Mile | San Francisco, CA | for general operating support | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Trace | Charlottesville, VA | for general operating support | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | for general operating support | International, foreign affairs and national security | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Misc Charitable Donation | Washington, DC | for general operating support | $250 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed September 15, 2025, IRS object ID 202522589349100007. It reported $809,000 in grants paid; 32 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houseus Fund | Washington, DC | HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 s | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Austin Justice Coalition | Austin, TX | To organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system. | Human services | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Resource Hub | Philadelphia, PA | Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 c | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope | Nashville, TN | to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Action St Louis | St Louis, MO | Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from landlords abuse and neglect. | Crime and legal-related | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Resource Initiative | San Francisco, CA | Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty and its adverse impacts on community and family stability. | Crime and legal-related | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Democratizing Justice Innovation Fund | New York, NY | FS Goodnation Foundation | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia | Minneapolis, MN | X organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobilize for a safe and affordable housing. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Justice 4 Housing | Jamaica Plain, MA | for outreach, organizing and advocacy to build community power, advance community goals and increase housing options for justice-involved individuals. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| KC Tenants | Kansas City, MO | KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely affordable home. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Life After Release | Camp Springs, MD | Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison and off parole and probation. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mhaction | Los Angeles, CA | MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and health. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | Employment | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| People's Advocacy Institute | Jackson, MS | to incubate community driven, designed and led criminal legal reform policy, practice and programs in Mississippi. FS Highlander Center | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Public Advocates | San Francisco, CA | General operating support for Alliance for Housing Justice, a network of grassroots organizing groups centering housing as a human right. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Texas Organizing Project | San Antonio, TX | Texas Organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black and Latino communities. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City | Oklahoma City, OK | BLM OKCs Death Penalty Moratorium Project is working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Texas Center for Justice and Equity | Austin, TX | TCJE conducts community outreach, organizing, and advocacy to shrink the criminal punishment system and foster safer communities. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| A New Way of Life | Los Angeles, CA | for general operating support | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Georgia Stand-Up | Atlanta, GA | for general operating support | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation | Brookline, MA | for general operating support | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Golden Bridge | Boulder, CO | For the BIPOC Scholarship Fund | Education | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Birthday Party Project | Dallas, TX | for general operating support | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hood Code | New York, NY | for general operating support | Education | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mending A Life Huru International | New York, NY | for general operating support | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY | for the TeleStory Project | Education | $500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Movement Liberation (FS Commonweal) | Bolinas, CA | for general operating support | $500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Trace | Charlottesville, VA | for general operating support | $500 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Employment | $75,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $75,000 |
| Education | $53,500 |
| Housing and shelter | $50,000 |
| Human services | $50,000 |
| Crime and legal-related | $50,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $26,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $385,000 |
| District of Columbia | $376,250 |
| Minnesota | $225,000 |
| Texas | $152,500 |
| New York | $130,000 |
| Illinois | $80,000 |
| Florida | $75,000 |
| North Carolina | $50,000 |
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Updated April 16, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.