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Byer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$663k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$606kPhilanthropy$602kHuman Services$568kReligion$293kEducation$283kRecreation & Sports$247kArts & Culture$239kAnimals$162kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA$90,000
THE ASHER HOUSE$75,000
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND$36,667
SF CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIVING$35,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
WATER 4 MERCY$30,000
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION$30,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$28,000
PENINSULA TEMPLE SHALOM$25,000
MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
PANDORA'S KIDS$25,000
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME$25,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING$25,000
LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$25,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $90k → 10%FATHERS DAY MOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC: $8k → 13%DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $40k → 10%DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%DELIVERING GOOD INC: $15k → 17%DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%DELIVERING GOOD INC: $15k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD INC: $10k → 17%FATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL: $8k → 17%MISSION HOSPICE & HOMECARE: $1k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENISULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
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OH
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CA
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DC
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AL
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 39 repeat orgs$641k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
55

Total granted

$2.6M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-7%

Still filing today

77%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GC
    GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $354k · revenue +35%
  • EI
    EIFOCUS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $247k · revenue +37% · 99% of their budget
  • CS
    CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • EA
    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • UF
    UCSF FOUNDATION POSEY GALA
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • RC
    RONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +159%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
8
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Sunflower Mission. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Lgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%37%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,906

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
37/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EIFOCUS INC — $246,600 · OtherEIFOCUS INCPENINSULA TEMPLE SHOLOM — $156,080 · OtherPENINSULA TEMPLE SHOLOMCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherCHI OMEGA FOUNDATIONEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND — $100,000 · OtherEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUNDWATER 4 MERCY INC — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $69,000 · Other+69 more — $818,425 · Other+69 moreGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $353,642 · PhilanthropyGIANTS COMMUNITY FUNDCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY …JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $87,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDE…PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION — $52,500 · PhilanthropyPETER MICHAEL FOUNDAT…+3 more — $45,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA — $130,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WI…PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $51,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA…DROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesDROPPING …DELIVERING GOOD INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesDELIVERIN…FATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $95,000 · HealthMILLS-PEN…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $66,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $36,600 · HealthCHILDREN'…EVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $25,000 · HealthEVERY MOT…American Heart Association Inc — $20,000 · HealthAmerican …SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthSAN FRANC…+4 more — $15,000 · Health+4 moreCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $225,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $40,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS — $7,833 · Arts & CultureTHE ASHER HOUSE — $75,000 · AnimalsLoves Legacy Rescue — $40,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $31,600 · AnimalsJessica's Haven and Rescue — $12,500 · Animals+1 more — $2,500 · Animals
Other$1,570,105Philanthropy$643,142Human Services$282,000Health$272,600Food & Nutrition$265,000Arts & Culture$232,833Animals$161,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $353,642 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetEIFOCUS INC — $246,600 over 3y, 99% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $225,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $225,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA — $130,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $87,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWATER 4 MERCY INC — $75,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $69,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $66,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $51,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLoves Legacy Rescue — $40,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetDROPPING DIMES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $36,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEndurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky — $35,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $31,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHOE4AFRICA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $26,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJessica's Haven and Rescue — $12,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLazarex Cancer Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIVING GROUP — $8,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION — $5,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Swig FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The Intuit FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Salesforce FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…
Marin Community FoundationCA20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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