· Private foundation
Byer Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL SQUASH | $15,250 |
| HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $2,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| NAACP | $2,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,750 |
| RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY S | $1,090 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| MY SISTER'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| HOME FOR THE BRAVE | $1,000 |
| FOODSHARE | $1,000 |
| SIMSBURY ABC HOUSE | $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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CSCapitol Squash Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +92%
TRINITY COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +12%- JAJUSTICE AT WORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- TPTBCC PLAY FOR THE CUREone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TCTUFTS COLLEGE TRUSTEESone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +3%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children International and the most unlike its peers is The Simsbury Volunteer Fire Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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. 43 of the 69 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 Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY ABC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Digel Family Foundation · Sullivan Foundation Julie Coscarelli Trustee · Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman 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 Byer Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work Inc — 0% of income from government
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.