How much does Byer Family Foundation give?

Byer Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $72,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Byer Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are Byer Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capitol Squash Inc ($106k), Trinity College ($80k), Trinity Academy Hartford Inc ($23k).

Does Byer Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Byer Family 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 Byer Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Aetna Foundation Inc, The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation.

Where is Byer Family Foundation based?

Byer Family Foundation is based in FL.

Byer Family Foundation

Byer Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$72k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$123kRecreation & Sports$68kYouth Development$41kInternational$28kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$15kCivil Rights$14kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $37k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$236k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE	$20,000
CAPITAL SQUASH	$15,250
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH	$2,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$2,500
HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE	$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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC	$1,000
MY SISTER'S PLACE	$1,000
CHILDRENS INTERNATIONAL	$1,000
SIMSBURY ABC HOUSE	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$340k · 50 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$340k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+11%

Still filing today

60%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CS
Capitol Squash Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +92%
TRINITY COLLEGE
4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +12%
JA
JUSTICE AT WORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +167%

Funded once

TP
TBCC PLAY FOR THE CURE
one grant, 2017 · $2k
TC
TUFTS COLLEGE TRUSTEES
one grant, 2023 · $2k
NA
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +3%

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.

04Its field

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.

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Fordham University

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.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

The Common Application Inc

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…

Education

Internet Society Foundation

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…

International

Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children International; 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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

31/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$114,800Recreation & Sports$107,592Other$80,415International$24,328Human Services$16,200Environment$7,340Health$7,011

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.

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Byer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home