Butler Family Fund
Private foundation · Washington, DC · EIN 52-1786778 · reported 2023–2025 · files as The Butler Family Fund
117grants reported
$25Kmedian award
$1,500lower quartile
$250smallest grant
$2.8Mtotal paid
26states reached
3years giving
This foundation funds faith-based organizations. 2 of its 117 reported grants went to churches, ministries or other religious organizations, $51K in total. That is what it paid, not what it says in a policy.
Gives every year. This foundation reported grants in 2023, 2024, 2025. A funder that shows up year after year is worth a letter even if this year is a no.
Where to write
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW 106-342
Washington, DC 20016-2143
Address as registered with the IRS. Most foundations this size have no website and no application form, which is not a dead end: a short letter to this address is the whole process, and almost nobody sends one.
Who they funded
| Recipient and stated purpose | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Houseus HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, | Washington, DC | $100,000 |
| Houseus Fund HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, | Washington, DC | $100,000 |
| Just Futures Inititiative - Community Transforming Policing Fund Just Futures is a donor collaborative housed at Borealis Philanthropy that supports groups working t | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 |
| Community Transforming Policing Fund CTFP is a donor collaborative housed at Borealis Philanthropy that supports groups working to build | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 |
| Act 4 SA ACT 4SA is a grassroots organization striving to center the well-being of their community without a | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 |
| Bozeman Tenants Education Fund BTU is a city-wide tenant union dedicated to building a world in which safe, dignified housing is av | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 |
| Caaav- Organizing Asian Communities CAAAV organizes Asian immigrants in New York City to ensure that working class people make decisions | New York, NY | $50,000 |
| Chispa OC Education Fund CHISPA OC is a Latinx organizing ecosystem in Orange County dedicated to harnessing the power of you | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 |
| Equity and Transformation EAT is a community-led organization seeking to build social and economic equity for Black workers en | Chicago, IL | $50,000 |
| For the Many For the Many is a grassroots, multiracial, intergenerational, and bi-lingual movement in rural upsta | Washingont, DC | $50,000 |
| Free DC Free DC is a grassroots organizing campaign to fight for noninterference in home rule for DC. | Washington, DC | $50,000 |
| Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco HRCSF is a multiracial, multilingual tenant rights organization working to stop the displacement of | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia IX organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobili | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 |
| Miami Workers Center Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown i | Miami, FL | $50,000 |
| National Homelessness Law Center For the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign | Washington, DC | $50,000 |
| North Carolina Tenants Union North Carolina Tenants Union is a statewide union of local tenant unions aiming to democratize housi | Chapel Hill, NC | $50,000 |
| Sos Fund Directed to the Emergent Fund and the Immigrant Frontlines Fund within the Four Freedons Fund | Oakland, CA | $50,000 |
| Tenant Union Federation TUF is a union of unions dedicated to establishing tenants as a powerful political class to preserve | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 |
| Vocal-Ny Restricted to VOCAL-KY which builds power among low-income people affected by the drug war, mass inc | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 |
| African American Roundtable OAK Grant: African American Roundtable organizes to reduce the funds in the Milwaukee city budget fo | Milwaukee, WI | $50,000 |
| Austin Justice Coalition Oak grant: to Austin Justice Coalition organize for affordable housing and against increased investm | Austin, TX | $50,000 |
| Community Resource Hub OAK Grant: Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local org | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 |
| Faith in Indiana OAK grant: A joint project of Faith in Indiana and the Iman Center to advance housing justice and wi | Inidianapolis, IN | $50,000 |
| Funders for Justice OAK GRANT: Funders for Justice is updating and launching a toolkit for grantmakers, donors, and fund | Calabasas, CA | $50,000 |
| Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope OAK grant: to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance commun | Nashville, TN | $50,000 |
| We Are Down Home OAK Grant: or leadership development, civic engagement, and multiracial movement building across rur | Greensboro, NC | $50,000 |
| Women on the Rise Oak Grant: Women on the Rise, through the Communities over Cages campaign, works to close an Atlanta | East Point, GA | $50,000 |
| African American Roundtable African American Roundtable organizes to reduce the funds in the Milwaukee city budget for harmful p | Milwaukee, WI | $50,000 |
| Austin Justice Coalition To organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal | Austin, TX | $50,000 |
| Community Resource Hub Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 |
| Funders for Justice FFJ is a national network and organizing platform of funders working to build transformative communi | Calabasas, CA | $50,000 |
| Noah - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope To conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals. | Nashville, TN | $50,000 |
| Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute (acre Institute) For research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal refo | Chicago, IL | $30,000 |
| Detroit Justice Center Detroit Justice Centers community lawyering program works alongside the community to transform the c | Detroit, MI | $30,000 |
| Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute (acre Institute) For research and support to campaigns at the intersection of Housing Justice and Criminal Legal refo | Chicago, IL | $30,000 |
| Global Impact The Alabama Solution Impact Campaign seeks to amplify the documentary The Alabama Solution and its e | Washington, DC | $25,000 |
| Action St Louis Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from land | St Louis, MO | $25,000 |
| African Communities Together To expand organizing among African immigrant tenants in Northern Virginia against displacement and l | New York, NY | $25,000 |
| Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth General operating support to end the extreme sentencing of youth and for re-entry programs for forme | Washington, DC | $25,000 |
| Community Resource Initiative Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty a | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia IX organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobili | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 |
| KC Tenants KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely af | Kansas City, MO | $25,000 |
| Law for Black Lives L4BL organizes, conducts budget analysis, supports capacity development, and creates new narratives | New York, NY | $25,000 |
| Life After Release Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison a | Camp Springs, MD | $25,000 |
| Mhaction MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and h | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 |
| Miami Workers Center Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown i | Miami, FL | $25,000 |
| One DC To advance, develop, and preserve racial justice and economic equity by fighting economic disenfranc | Washington, DC | $25,000 |
| People's Advocacy Institute To incubate community driven, designed and led criminal legal reform policy, practice and programs i | Jackson, MS | $25,000 |
| Public Advocates General operating support for Alliance for Housing Justice, a network of grassroots organizing group | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 |
| Texas Organizing Project Texas Organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 |
| Vocal-Ny VOCAL-NY is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 |
| Action St Louis Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from land | St Louis, MO | $25,000 |
| Community Resource Initiative Community Resource Initiative works to support mitigation efforts that challenge the death penalty a | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 |
| Democratizing Justice Innovation Fund FS Goodnation Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia X organizes Minneapolis low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant tenants to strategize, advocate and mobiliz | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 |
| Justice 4 Housing For outreach, organizing and advocacy to build community power, advance community goals and increase | Jamaica Plain, MA | $25,000 |
| KC Tenants KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely af | Kansas City, MO | $25,000 |
| Life After Release Life After Release seeks to build a post-conviction movement aimed at getting people out of prison a | Camp Springs, MD | $25,000 |
| Mhaction MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and h | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 |
| Miami Workers Center Miami Workers Center organizes and mobilizes working-class families, predominately Black and brown i | Miami, FL | $25,000 |
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