Texas · 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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Bg Byars Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $65k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $85k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $44k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Museum of Art | $144,500 | 4 | 4% |
| First Church of Christ Scientists | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Leaves Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Tyler Rose Museum Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Humane Society of East Texas | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Wounded Warriors | $3,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Winona Volunteer Fire Department | $3,550 | 3 | 1% |
| Nicholas Pet Haven | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hospice of East Texas | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Museum of Art | $144,500 | 4 | 4% |
| First Church of Christ Scientists | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Leaves Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Tyler Rose Museum Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Humane Society of East Texas | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Wounded Warriors | $3,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Winona Volunteer Fire Department | $3,550 | 3 | 1% |
| Nicholas Pet Haven | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hospice of East Texas | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| East Texas Crisis Center Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Historic Tyler Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mentoring Alliance | $2,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Tyler Junior College | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tyler Day Nursery Association | $850 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Cameron-J Jarvis Troup Municipal Library Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Foundation for Rescued Animals Dba Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary | $400 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bg Byars Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Bg Byars Foundation
- How much does Bg Byars Foundation give?
- Bg Byars Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $64,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bg Byars Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Religion (8%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Bg Byars Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Tyler Museum of Art ($145k), First Church of Christ Scientists ($13k), The Leaves Inc ($7k).
- Does Bg Byars Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bg Byars Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bg Byars Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A S Genecov Foundation, Julietta Jarvis Foundation Inc, James I Perkins Family Foundation.
- Where is Bg Byars Foundation based?
- Bg Byars Foundation is based in TX.
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