Butt founded and is the president of the East Brother Light Station, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on maintaining the historic East Brother Island Lighthouse on East Brother Island, a Bay Area landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. Butt founded and remains a board member of Rosie the Riveter Trust (named for  Rosie the Riveter), the non-profit partner of Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park located in Richmond.
Butt established East Brother Light Station, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the historic East Brother Island Lighthouse on East Brother Island, which is listed as a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. He also founded and remains a board member of Rosie the Riveter Trust (named after Rosie the Riveter), the non-profit partner of Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond.