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Butler Family Fund

Washington, DC · EIN 521786778 · Website ↗ · 990s on ProPublica ↗

Assets

$10.8M

Total Giving

$3.6M

Grants on File

183

Average Grant

$19K

Giving Radius

Where Butler Family Fund Has Given

Historical grants to 129 recipients across 28 states. Top concentrations: New York ($421K, 24 grants), Washington ($275K, 16 grants), Brooklyn ($230K, 11 grants), Chicago ($211K, 13 grants), New Orleans ($180K, 3 grants).

Section I

How to Apply

No application guidelines on file — check the foundation's website directly.

On Unsolicited Proposals no

Section IV

Recent Grants

Recipient	Location	Amount	Purpose	Year
Mass Liberation Fund Fical Sponsor Tides Foundation	San Francisco, CA	$25K	General support to build organizing capacity among people most impacted by criminal justice and for campaigns to hold district attorneys accountable.	2020
Public Advocates	San Francisco, CA	$20K	General operating support for Alliance for Housing Justice, a network of grassroots organizing groups centering housing as a human right.	2020
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	$20K	Project support dedicated to examining the youth and racial dimensions of COVID-19 to inform equitable, youth-oriented policies for housing and economic justice.	2020
Law for Black Lives	New York, NY	$100K	OAK GRANT: General support for organizing, budget analysis, and narrative change to move money out of criminal justice.	2020
North Star Fund	New York, NY	$15K	For Future of Organizing Fund.	2020
Project South	Atlanta, GA	$22K	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.	2020
A New Way of Life	Los Angeles, CA	$60K	OAK GRANT: For replication of the SAFE Housing Network providing housing for women with criminal justice backgrounds.	2020
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities	Washington, DC	$15K	Gor general support.	2020
Diverse City Fund	Washington, DC	$15K	For COVID-19 response efforts.	2020
JustLeadership USA	New York, NY	$20K	For general support, including campaigns like #WORKINGfutures in Michigan to reduce housing barriers for people in the criminal justice system.	2020
National Housing Law Project	San Francisco, CA	$25K	For general operating support.	2020
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty	Washington, DC	$15K	General support to promote housing as a human right and oppose the criminalization of homelessness.	2020
Operation Restoration	New Orleans, LA	$50K	OAK GRANT: General operating support to provide housing and services to women with criminal justice backgrounds.	2020
Private Equity Stakeholders Project	Chicago, IL	$12K	General operating support to challenge evictions, rent increases and foreclosures by corporate landlords during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.	2020
Participatory Budgeting Project	Brooklyn, NY	$20K	General operating support to promote civic engagement and control of public budgets.	2020
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice	New Orleans, LA	$40K	OAK GRANT: General operating support for long-term organizing to make justice reinvestment a reality.	2020
Census Project 2020	Washington, DC	$15K	For a pooled fund to support activities preparing for a fair and accurate Census in 2020.	2020
Center for Community Change	Washington, DC	$60K	OAK Grant: For the Womens Fellowship, supporting leadership of formerly incarcerated women on a range of issues, including housing.	2020
CURB Fiscal Sponsor Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs	Calabasas, CA	$15K	General support for statewide coalition advancing transformative criminal justice reform.	2020
DC Jobs with Justice	Washington, DC	$12K	For general support, including campaigns like Reclaim Rent Control.	2020
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights	Oakland, CA	$30K	General operating support, including work to divest resources from the criminal legal system and invest them in communities.	2020
Housing NOLA	New Orleans, LA	$90K	OAK GRANT: For the New Orleans ReEntry Housing Consortium to advocate for funding housing for people exiting the criminal justice system through LAs justice reinvestment law as well as other public sources.	2020
Movement for Black Lives Fiscal sonsor Alliance for Global Justice	Tucson, AZ	$30K	General operating support for hub to coordinate actions, messages, and campaigns to influence policy and systems that impact Black people.	2020
Movement Law Lab Fiscal sonsor NEO Philanthropy	New York, NY	$30K	To launch the Housing Justice Legal fellowship to connect grassroots organizing groups with movement lawyers.	2020
Reprieve US	New York, NY	$12K	For the Stop Lethal Injections Project.	2020

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Section V

Board of Directors

Molly Schultz Executive Director
Eve Wildrick President
Joanne Snider Treasurer
Alexandra Hirsch Trustee
Remy Klein Trustee
Rebecca Morrison Vice President
Lucia Horan Trustee
Lisa Siegel Secretary
Molly Schultz Executive Director
Eve Wildrick President
Lucia Horan Drummond Director
Alexandra Hirsch Director
Remy Klein Director
Rebecca Morrison Director
Lisa Siegel Director
Jody Snider Director
Molly Schultz Executive Director
Eve Wildrick President
Jennifer Gravin Director
Phineas Hircsh Director
Lucia Horan Drummond Director
Remy Klein Director
Rebecca Morrison Director
Jody Snider Director
Molly Schultz Executive Director
Martha A Toll Former Executive Director
Eve B Wildrick President
Georgina Hirsch Director
Jennifer Gravin Director
Lisa Siegel Secretary
Phineas Hirsch Director
Rebecca Morrison Director
Remy Klein Director

Section VI

Filing History

Year-by-year financial summary from IRS 990-PF filings. Total assets and qualifying distributions show the foundation's growth and giving trajectory.

Year	Total Assets	Qualifying Distributions	Total Revenue	Total Expenses
2023	$10.9M	$512K	$1.3M	$1.4M
2022	$10.2M	$554K	$1.1M	$1.4M
2021	$14.2M	$647K	$1.4M	$913K
2020	$11.9M	$524K	$974K	$1.4M
2019	$11.6M	$564K	$1.2M	$1.5M
2015	$10.9M	$572K	$1.4M	$1.3M
2014	$12.0M	$574K	$1.2M	$1.1M
2013	$11.5M	$516K	$996K	$750K
2012	$9.7M	$460K	$771K	$909K
2011	$9.3M	$477K	$1.2M	$1.3M