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Byers Family Foundation at a glance

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Byers Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$184kHuman Services$154kReligion$145kFood & Nutrition$42kRecreation & Sports$14kHealth$10kEducation$515Employment$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$261k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY CARE$110,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA$20,000
ANTIOCH MINISTRY$10,000
THE GOOD OKC$10,000
RESTORE OKC$5,000
CROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH$128
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Tear Fund USA: $101k → 8%Springs Rescue Mission: $500 → 9%CITY CARE: $110k → 16%TEARFUND USA: $63k → 8%CITY CARE: $25k → 16%CITY CARE: $13k → 16%CITY CARE: $5k → 16%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

NY
IN
CA
CO
DC
OK
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$480k · 7 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
23

Total granted

$480k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionFood & NutritionInternationalEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • CC
    CITY CARE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $153k · revenue +12%
  • REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +22%
  • TG
    The Good OKC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • RU
    RISE UP WOMAN INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • C
    CRU
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
2
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
3
Food for the Cities

We are a ministry of servants that lead souls to Jesus Christ and leave a lasting impact on the world for Gods glory. Our vision is to save the people of the USA, Amazon and the World with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple them into…

Human Services
4
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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5
Bread for the World Institute

To provide analysis and education on hunger issues in the United States and around the world.

International
6
Family Hope International

Family hope international frees families from extreme poverty in africa by providing them with basic needs to sustain their lives and empowering them with a small business opportunity.

International
7
Phoenix Gospel Mission

Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. the phoenix rescue mission is a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings for men, women, and children in our community.

Religion
8
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
9
Ok Justice Circle

Uniting voices, healing divides, advancing justice, guided by faith

Human Services
10
Redeemer City to City

Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.

Religion
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Good Okc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEARFUND USA INC: $164,103 · Human ServicesTEARFUND USA INCCITY CARE INC: $153,169 · Human ServicesCITY CARE INC+2 more: $1,746 · Human ServicesCROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $66,795 · OtherCROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINDIANA SPORTS OUTREACH (BALL PROJECT): $10,500 · OtherINDIANA SPORTS OUTREACH (B…CRU: $10,000 · OtherCRUANTIOCH MINISTRY: $10,000 · OtherANTIOCH MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $6,380 · OtherFREEDOM WORSHIP CENTER INC: $5,110 · Other+11 more: $11,433 · Other+11 moreThe Good OKC: $35,000 · ReligionThe Good O…RESTOREOKC INC: $12,850 · ReligionRESTOREOKC…BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $5,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUD…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $38,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionRISE UP WOMAN INTERNATIONAL: $17,200 · Public BenefitHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · HealthFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $525 · InternationalLAST BELL MINISTRIES INC: $257 · International
Human Services$319,018Other$131,218Religion$52,850Food & Nutrition$39,500Public Benefit$17,200Health$10,000International$782

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEARFUND USA INC: $164,103 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCITY CARE INC: $153,169 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Good OKC: $35,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetRISE UP WOMAN INTERNATIONAL: $17,200 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetRESTOREOKC INC: $12,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 66 INC: $1,246 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREMERGE INC: $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLISHED NETWORK INC: $515 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM CITY INC: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPERO PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST BELL MINISTRIES INC: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $250 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.

Inasmuch FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Oklahoma City Communi…Servant FoundationThe Merrick FoundationEl and Thelma Gaylord…Jean Hudiburg Family …Wegener Foundation IncKirkpatrick Family Af…Sarkeys FoundationAmerican Fidelity Fou…The Kerr Foundation I…
Inasmuch FoundationOK19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Jean Hudiburg Family Foundation Attn David Hudiburg · Wegener Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Kerr Foundation 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Remerge Inc: 7% 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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