Executive compensation
Form 990-PF · Part VIII · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024
Percentile bands compare each position's total pay with the same role at Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking organizations in District of Columbia.
| Position | Total |
|---|---|
Executive Director 25th percentile to median | $154k $163k |
Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.
Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.
Plus 6 unpaid individuals.
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Top pay as a share of expenses
In 2024, the highest total compensation at The Butler Family Fund equaled 13% of the organization's total expenses. The median for philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations is 15%.
Based on 35,946 philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations, each measured at its most recent filing year with reported expenses and compensation.
Grants paid
Itemized grants reported on this foundation's 2024 Form 990-PF, Part XV.
Total granted
$809k
Itemized grants
32
Median grant
$25k
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| HouseUS Fund | Washington, DC | HouseUs supports tenant organizing and tenant power as a pathway towards achieving safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all. | $100k |
| 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 strategies. | $75k |
| 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. | $50k |
| Austin Justice Coalition | Austin, TX | To organize for affordable housing and against increased investment in the police and criminal legal system. | $50k |
| Community Resource Hub | Philadelphia, PA | Community Resource Hub provides resources and tools to increase the capacity of local organizers to win their campaigns | $50k |
| 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 community-identified priorities. | $50k |
| NOAH - Nashville Organized for Action & Hope | Nashville, TN | to conduct outreach, organizing, and advocacy to build community power and advance community goals. | $50k |
| 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. | $30k |
| Action St Louis | St Louis, MO | Action St. Louis advocates for policies that expand affordable housing and protect tenants from landlords abuse and neglect. | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| Democratizing Justice Innovation Fund | New York, NY | FS Goodnation Foundation | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| KC Tenants | Kansas City, MO | KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and genuinely affordable home. | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| MHAction | Los Angeles, CA | MHAction works to organize manufactured home communities and protect tenants economic security and health. | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| 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 | $25k |
| 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. | $25k |
| Texas Organizing Project | San antonio, TX | Texas Organizing Project organizes community-led campaigns to stabilize housing in low income Black and Latino communities. | $25k |
| Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City | Oklahoma City, OK | BLM OKCs Death Penalty Moratorium Project is working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma. | $20k |
| 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. | $20k |
| A New Way of Life | Los Angeles, CA | for general operating support | $3k |
| Georgia Stand-Up | Atlanta, GA | for general operating support | $3k |
| Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation | Brookline, MA | for general operating support | $2k |
Up 3%
from 2023
From $149k in 2023 to $154k in 2024.
Estimated with Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.
Chief Executive Officer pay rose 3% from 2023 to 2024, while revenue rose 119%.
Pay for the position itself, not any one person. The officeholder may have changed between 2023 and 2024.
This is a private foundation. Peers are foundations of similar asset size ($10M - $25M), because foundation pay scales with assets under management, not revenue.
Among peers
Revenue and top compensation, plotted against similar organizations. This organization is highlighted in cyan.
Common questions about The Butler Family Fund
What does the Chief Executive Officer of The Butler Family Fund earn?
In 2024, the Chief Executive Officer of The Butler Family Fund received $153,944 in total compensation. This pay is below the median (the midpoint) for Chief Executive Officer roles among Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking organizations in District of Columbia, but above the bottom quarter of comparable filings. Based on IRS Form 990 data.
How does Chief Executive Officer pay at The Butler Family Fund compare with similar nonprofits?
Compared with the same role at Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking organizations in District of Columbia, the 2024 pay of the Chief Executive Officer at The Butler Family Fund falls between the 25th percentile and the median. In 2024, the highest total compensation at The Butler Family Fund equaled 13% of the organization's total expenses. The median for philanthropy, voluntarism & grantmaking organizations is 15%.
What are The Butler Family Fund's revenue and expenses?
In 2024, The Butler Family Fund reported $2.8M in total revenue and $1.2M in total expenses on its IRS Form 990.
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