· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEXAS WOUNDED WARRIOR | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,500 |
| NICHOLAS PET HAVEN | $1,500 |
| WINONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,500 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $1,200 |
| HISTORIC TYLER | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS | $1,000 |
| EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCH | $1,000 |
| PATH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TYLER INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bg Byars Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bg Byars Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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