Butler Family Foundation Announces Spring Grants
The Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation is pleased to announce its grants for spring 2024. Grants were awarded through the foundation's Special Projects and Invited Grants Programs and supported organizations working in the arts, environment, human services, and philanthropy and nonprofit technical assistance.
On behalf of the Butler Family Foundation, congratulations to our grantees. We are proud to support your work!
Special Projects Grants
Special Projects Grants provide major support for capital campaigns, program innovations, and systems-change initiatives.
- Avenues for Youth: $150,000 for a youth housing facility in North Minneapolis.
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $150,000 for an alternative admissions program to its graduate school for addiction studies.
- Women's Foundation of Minnesota: $100,000 for the MN Feminist Giving Day.
Invited Grants
Invited Grants support organizations of special interest to the foundation through an invitation-only application process.
Arts
- Collegeville Institute: $110,000 for general operating support.
- INSITE: $30,000 for general operating support.
- Los Angeles Nomadic Division: $30,000 for general operating support.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Minnesota Historical Society: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Ramsey County Historical Society: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Space 4 Art: $15,000 for general operating support.
- Worcester Art Museum: $110,000 for general operating support.
Environment
- Climate Generation: $25,000 for general operating support.
- Ding Darling Wildlife Society: $45,000 for general operating support.
- Frogtown Farm: $10,000 for general operating support.
- The Trustees of Reservations: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Wild Rivers Conservancy: $10,000 for general operating support.
- Wilderness Inquiry: $50,000 for general operating support.
Human Services
- Ann Bancroft Foundation: $10,000 for the Trailblazer Fellowship Program.
- Bridging: $25,000 for general operating support.
- Catholic Charities of St. Paul & Minneapolis: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Centro Tyrone Guzman: $20,000 for seniors programming.
- Cookie Cart: $25,000 for general operating support.
- Girls on the Run Minnesota: $15,000 for general operating support.
- Groundworks Collaborative: $18,750 for general operating support.
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $110,000 for general operating support.
- Marillac St. Vincent Family Services: $15,000 for general operating support.
- Mercy Home for Boys and Girls: $20,000 for general operating support.
- Misericordia Foundation: $25,000 for general operating support.
- One World Surgery: $25,000 for general operating support.
- Second Harvest Heartland: $15,000 for general operating support.
- The Food Group: $30,000 for general operating support.
- Valley Outreach: $25,000 for general operating support.
- Vermont Community Foundation: $18,750 for the Close The Opportunity Gap Fund.
- Vermont Foodbank: $18,750 for general operating support.
- Women's Freedom Center: $18,750 for general operating support.