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.

Where is Byer Foundation based?

Byer Foundation is based in CA.

Byer Foundation

Byer Foundation at a glance

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Byer Foundation

Q: 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.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$663k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$90k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $48k
$10k–50k20 grants · $450k
$50k–250k2 grants · $165k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION	$30,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$30,000
WATER 4 MERCY	$30,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$28,000
PENINSULA TEMPLE SHALOM	$25,000
PANDORA'S KIDS	$25,000
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME	$25,000
LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN	$25,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING	$25,000
MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$25,000
UCSF FOUNDATION	$20,000

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 39 repeat orgs$641k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Total granted

$2.6M

$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

-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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

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%

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.

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education

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

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

The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; 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.

04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)

68/68

Grantees still filing

38/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,570,105Philanthropy$643,142Human Services$282,000Health$272,600Food & Nutrition$265,000Arts & Culture$232,833Animals$161,600

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.

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

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

2024

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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

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