California · Private foundation
Byer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $663k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Byer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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 | 29 | $628k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $633k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $485k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $442k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $132k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $220k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $192k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $262k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giants Community Fund | $353,642 | 9 | 1% |
| Eifocus Inc | $246,600 | 3 | 99% |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Peninsula Temple Sholom | $156,080 | 6 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chi Omega Foundation | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Water 4 Mercy Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Asher House | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Byer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Swig Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
About Byer Foundation
- How much does Byer Foundation give?
- Byer Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $662,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Byer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Philanthropy (18%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Byer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Giants Community Fund ($354k), Eifocus Inc ($247k), National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ($225k).
- Does Byer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Byer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Byer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Byer Foundation based?
- Byer Foundation is based in CA.
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