· Private foundation
Bg Byars Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
Largely a single collection — about 93% of reported assets are Oil & Gas Royalties.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TYLER MUSEUM OF ART | $33,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE LEAVES | $2,500 |
| TYLER ROSE MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| TJC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,500 |
| TEXAS WOUNDED WARRIOR | $1,500 |
| WINONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,500 |
| NICHOLAS PET HAVEN | $1,500 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $1,200 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY-SMITH CNTY | $1,000 |
| EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC TYLER | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TLThe Leaves Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +130%
- TTTHE TYLER ROSE MUSEUM INC4× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +135%
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF EAST TEXAS4× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST TXone grant, 2019 · $1k
- TJTyler Junior Collegeone grant, 2018 · $1k
- HTHOSPICE - TYLERone grant, 2019 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1.serving the city of tyler, smith county, and surrounding areas in the rescue and adoption of homeless animals. 2. promoting and educating our community regarding the serious need for reduction of local pet overpopulation and lowering…
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.
Management and operation of the arboretum.
The mission of tulia child development center is to provide child day care-weekday child care for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old.
Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Texas Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas Pet Haven. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TYLER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Leaves Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TYLER ROSE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WOUNDED WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds WINONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS PET HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TYLER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TYLER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: A S Genecov Foundation · Julietta Jarvis Foundation Inc · James I Perkins Family Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Hoeffner Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Sam Roosth Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bg Byars Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.