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Grants paid by The Butler Family Fund, tax year 2021
EIN 52-1786778 · Washington, DC · Form 990-PF, Part XV
In tax year 2021, The Butler Family Fund (EIN 52-1786778) reported 43 grants paid totaling $547,750. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2021
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Oakland, CA | U | $30,000 | paid | General operating support, including work to divest resources from the criminal legal system and invest them in communities. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Common Counsel Foundation- Movement for Black Lives Oakland, CA | U | $30,000 | paid | General operating support for hub to coordinate actions, messages, and campaigns to influence policy and systems that impact Black people. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Right to the City Alliance Brooklyn, NY | B | $25,000 | paid | Project support dedicated to connecting grassroots organizing groups with movement lawyers. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Tides Foundation- Mass Liberation Fund Los Angeles, CA | U | $25,000 | paid | General operating support for hub to coordinate actions, messages, and campaigns to influence policy and systems that impact Black people. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide Atlanta, GA | B | $25,000 | paid | 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. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | New Venture Fund- Youth First Initiative Washington, DC | U | $25,000 | paid | For the Youth First State Advocacy Fund, a pooled fund to support ending juvenile incarceration in states. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Neo Philanthropy Inc- Movement Law Lab New York, NY | U | $25,000 | paid | To strengthen the legal capacities of the housing justice movement | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Youth Collaboratory Pittsburgh, PA | C | $25,000 | paid | For the Activating National Uptake Project to advance efforts to end youth homelessness. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Neo Philanthropy Inc- Law for Black Lives New York, NY | U | $25,000 | paid | General operating support for organizing, budget analysis, capacity development and narrative change to move money out of the criminal legal system. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Forward Justice Durham, NC | C | $25,000 | paid | Project support dedicated to joint efforts to ensure that new visions of community safety meet the needs of those impacted by the harm and injustice revealed by the intersecting dangers of COVID and incarceration. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs- Women On the Rise Calabasas, CA | D | $22,000 | paid | To support Close the Jail Atlanta: Communities over Cages Campaign to redirect money from criminal justice into the community. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Right to the City Alliance Brooklyn, NY | B | $20,000 | paid | Restricted to Homes for All South, a network of member-led, grassroots housing justice organizations in the South. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | African Communities Together New York, NY | B | $20,000 | paid | To expand organizing among African immigrant tenants in Northern Virginia against displacement and loss of affordable housing units. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Southern Center for Human Rights Atlanta, GA | B | $20,000 | paid | Project support dedicated to supporting the death penalty abolition movement in Black communities across the South through organizing, outreach, and education. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | One DC Washington, DC | U | $20,000 | paid | 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. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Financial Services Stakeholder Project DBA Private Equity Stakeholders Proj Chicago, IL | D | $17,000 | paid | General operating support to challenge evictions, rent increases and foreclosures by corporate landlords during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | People's Action Institute Chicago, IL | B | $15,000 | paid | For the Homes Guarantee Campaign | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Detroit Justice Center Detroit, MI | C | $15,000 | paid | General operating support for a community lawyering program which works alongside community to transform the criminal legal system, create economic opportunities, and promote equitable and just cities. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Vocal-NY Brooklyn, NY | U | $15,000 | paid | General operating support to organization pursuing housing justice and criminal legal system reform to advance the rights of low-income and marginalized New Yorkers. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Chapel and York Foundation- Responsible Business Initiative New York, NY | U | $15,000 | paid | General operating support to enlist business and trade voices to amplify the need to end the death penalty. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Shriver Center On Poverty Law Chicago, IL | C | $15,000 | paid | General operating support including work to end housing discrimination against formerly incarcerated people. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs- Curb (californians United for Respo Calabasas, CA | D | $15,000 | paid | General operating support for statewide coalition advancing transformational criminal legal system reform. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | We Are Down Home Greensboro, NC | B | $15,000 | paid | For leadership development, civic engagement, and multiracial movement building across rural and urban areas in North Carolina. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth Washington, DC | B | $13,500 | paid | General operating support to end the extreme sentencing of youth and for re-entry programs for former juvenile lifers. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project Philadelphia, PA | B | $13,500 | paid | General support for resentencing and reentry for former youth sentenced to life in prison. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Reprieve US New York, NY | U | $12,000 | paid | For the Stop Lethal Injections Project | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Movement Strategy Center (justice Capital) Oakland, CA | U | $5,000 | paid | General operating support for organization designing non-grant investment vehicles to help scale models that promote thriving Black, Brown, Indigenous, and systems impacted communities. | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Seedarts - Northwest Tap Connection Seattle, WA | U | $2,500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Insight Garden Program Berkeley, CA | U | $2,500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Common Counsel Foundation- Movement for Black Lives Oakland, CA | U | $2,500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Madre Inc New York, NY | C | $2,500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Kc Tenants Kansas City, MO | B | $2,000 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Million Books Project - Yale Law School Fund New Haven, CT | U | $1,500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Common Counsel Foundation- Movement for Black Lives Oakland, CA | U | $1,000 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Brigid Alliance New York, NY | B | $1,000 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute Atlanta, GA | U | $1,000 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity (mend) Maplewood, NJ | C | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Million Books Project - Yale Law School Fund New Haven, CT | U | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Highlander Center - National Bail Out New Market, TN | U | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Altamed Foundation Los Angeles, CA | B | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Bennington College Bennington, VT | B | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Summer Camp Inc Bridgton, ME | B | $500 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
| 2021 | Metropolitan Opera New York, NY | U | $250 | paid | General program support | 202201259349101020 |
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