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Byers Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPPER ARLINGTON LEGACY CAMPAIGN | $15,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY | $15,500 |
| PROMISE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY | $6,500 |
| OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM | $3,128 |
| APBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $3,000 |
| BALLET MET | $3,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $2,500 |
| WITTENBURG UNIVERSITY THE WITTENBURG FUND | $2,000 |
| DANNY & RONS RESCUE | $2,000 |
| COPPER HORSE CRUSADE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- BMBALLET METROPOLITAN INC5× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +43%
- TATHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM5× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +149%
- AHAPBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MIMARYHAVEN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
- VIVolunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Incone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +6%
- OSOHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +111%
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.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The ohio society for the prevention of cruelty to animals works to prevent and stop cruelty to animals throughout ohio. our mission falls into three main areas: 1) intervention in cases of animal cruelty, 2) animal rehabilitation, and 3)…
The ohio bird sanctuary is a public facility that offers care for injured & displaced wildlife, promotes conservation through education and stewardship and provides the opportunity for all individuals to make a connection with nature.
Ending animal homelessness through adoptions, education and outreach while saving lives and supporting the bond between pets and their families.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The mission of the Marion County Humane Society is to provide shelter for abandoned, abused, neglected and home-less animals to work with our rescued animals until we can find forever loving homes for them and to work within the community…
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Family Health Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Copper Horse Crusade. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 30 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds APBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOLLY'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MARYHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Martin County ↗
- Who funds KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTTS MILITARY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TYKES & TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON FAMILY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COPPER HORSE CRUSADE ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Byers Charitable Trust 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% 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.
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