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Byers Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$92k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$64kAnimals$36kHealth$32kEducation$12kReligion$10kPhilanthropy$6kScience & Tech$3kYouth Development$1k
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$3,128
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER ARLINGTON LEGACY CAMPAIGN$15,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY$15,500
DELAWARE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
PROMISE OF HOPE$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
BALLET MET$3,000
APBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$3,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$2,500
WITTENBURG UNIVERSITY THE WITTENBURG FUND$2,000
COPPER HORSE CRUSADE$2,000
DANNY & RONS RESCUE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM: $3k → 14%Tykes and Teens: $3k → 10%Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: $1k → 13%APBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3k → 10%PROMISE OF HOPE: $10k → 21%Volunteers in Medicine: $4k → 18%OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $5k → 5%Madison Family Health Corporation: $1k → 10%COPPER HORSE CRUSADE: $2k → 13%WITTENBURG UNIVERSITY THE WITTENBURG FUND: $2k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $7k → 15%VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $3k → 9%Antique Boat Museum: $1k → 14%Molly's House: $3k → 10%APBA Historical Society: $2k → 10%Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County: $4k → 18%DELAWARE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 5%Madison Family Health Corporation: $1k → 10%UPPER ARLINGTON LEGACY CAMPAIGN: $16k → 15%Antique Boat Museum: $1k → 14%Molly's House: $3k → 10%APBA Historical Society: $1k → 10%Volunteers in Medicine: $3k → 18%MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 10%BALLET MET: $3k → 15%Antique Boat Museum: $1k → 14%United Way of Martin County: $2k → 10%APBA Historical Society Inc: $1k → 10%Ballet Met: $3k → 15%Antique Boat Museum: $1k → 14%Molly's House Inc: $2k → 10%BalletMET: $3k → 15%United Way of Martin County: $1k → 10%BalletMET: $3k → 15%Library Foundation of Martin County: $4k → 10%Ballet Metropolitan: $3k → 15%Library Foundation of Martin County: $1k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY: $16k → 10%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 15%Columbus Museum of Art: $1k → 15%Columbus Museum of Art: $1k → 15%Columbus Museum of Art: $1k → 15%Columbus Museum of Art: $1k → 15%Marco Houpe Foundation: $1k → 15%MARYHAVEN INC: $5k → 15%COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $5k → 15%Ohio State Innovation Foundation: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
VA
SC
GA
FL
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 12 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$69k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+55%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureEducationReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BM
    BALLET METROPOLITAN INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +43%
  • TA
    THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +149%
  • AH
    APBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MI
    MARYHAVEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • VI
    Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +6%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +111%
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.

1
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

—
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 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)…

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6
Ohio Bird Sanctuary Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Montgomery County Humane Society Inc

Ending animal homelessness through adoptions, education and outreach while saving lives and supporting the bond between pets and their families.

Animals
8
Chicago Maritime Museum

Operation of a nautical history museum.

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9
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
10
Marion County Humane Society

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…

Animals
11
Macomb County Humane Society

Provide care for homeless/abused animals

Animals
12
Michigan Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Family Health Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPPER ARLINGTON LEGACY CAMPAIGN: $15,500 · OtherUPPER ARLINGTON LEGACY CAMPAIGNDELAWARE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYVolunteers in Medicine: $8,500 · OtherVolunteers in MedicineAPBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,500 · OtherAPBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $6,500 · OtherMOLLY'S HOUSE INCVolunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc: $3,500 · OtherVolunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe C…MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · OtherWITTENBURG UNIVERSITY THE WITTENBURG FUND: $2,000 · OtherFranklin Park Conservatory: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET METROPOLITAN …THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM: $7,128 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUS…COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF A…MOTTS MILITARY MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMOTTS MILITARY MUSEU…HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY: $15,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF…OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $5,000 · AnimalsOHIO WILDLIFE CEN…COPPER HORSE CRUSADE: $2,000 · AnimalsCOPPER HORSE CRUS…DANNY & RONS RESCUE: $2,000 · AnimalsDANNY & RONS RESC…STOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE: $1,000 · AnimalsMARYHAVEN INC: $5,000 · HealthMARYHAVEN…KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthKEVIN BAB…TYKES & TEENS INC: $2,500 · HealthTYKES & T…MADISON FAMILY HEALTH CORPORATION: $2,000 · HealthMADISON F…Columbus School for Girls: $5,000 · EducationColumbus …Library Foundation of Martin County: $5,000 · EducationLibrary F…OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationOHIO STAT…PROMISE OF HOPE: $10,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $6,500 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$59,500Arts & Culture$30,128Animals$25,500Health$13,500Education$13,000Religion$10,000Environment$6,500Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY: $15,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM: $7,128 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus School for Girls: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Martin County: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVolunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTTS MILITARY MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON FAMILY HEALTH CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPPER HORSE CRUSADE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Columbus FoundationMeuse Family Foundati…The Community Foundat…L Brands FoundationColumbus Jewish Found…United Way of Central…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Columbus FoundationOH22.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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Find your warmest path to Byers Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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