Community Grant

The Butler Family Foundation funds organizations working in the following fields:

• Human Services organizations that:
  • Assist the most vulnerable members of our community, especially women and children.
  • The Foundation has special concern for victims of sexual exploitation and supports the principles of the Nordic Model, funding programs in the following five areas:
    • Prevention and intervention services for those experiencing domestic and family violence
    • Residential and community support for those with chemical addictions
    • Housing and services for those who are homeless or who lack safe, stable, and affordable housing
    • Holistic intervention and rehabilitative services for prostituted people, and those at risk of being prostituted, guided by the principles of the Nordic Model
    • Initiatives that promote public understanding of the Nordic Model principles

The Butler Family Foundation has supported the following organizations, but they are not of priority for the current grant round.

• Arts organizations that:
  • Make the arts accessible to every resident of the Twin Cities, with a particular focus on multidisciplinary and visual arts
  • Make musical instrument instruction available to young people from low-income families
  • Create access to collections and programs of visual arts, natural history, and science museums for low-income and nontraditional audiences
• Environmental organizations that:
  • Have programs in land protection and sustainable land use, water quality protection and improvement, and efforts which integrate land and water protection strategies.
  • Educate Minnesota's young people about the importance of land and water resources

The minimum grant amount projects and programming requests is $20,000. The minimum grant amount for general operating support requests is $30,000.