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Byers Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $184k
- $250k+1 grant · $488k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER TYLER | $487,500 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC | $38,500 |
| EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PATH | $25,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER | $25,000 |
| CHRISTUS TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES | $25,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES | $20,000 |
| EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL CHILDRENS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| THE HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COWEN CENTER CIRCLE | $5,000 |
| EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535k 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
- BHBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC2× · 2023–2024 · $114k · revenue +59%
- ETEAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +12%
- ETEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RCRUSK CARESone grant, 2023 · $188k
- JEJacksonville Education Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -79%
- TJTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +55%
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.
Support economic development of greater tyler area.
1.serving the city of tyler, smith county, and surrounding areas in the rescue and adoption of homeless animals. 2. promoting and educating our community regarding the serious need for reduction of local pet overpopulation and lowering…
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
To help people facing barriers related to their disabilities achieve full participation in their communities with greater independence, self-sufficiency and involvement in the community.
Faith-based counseling and community education
To promote preservation and protection of historic structures
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Texas Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jacksonville Education Foundation Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Womens Symphony League of Tyler Inc ↗
- Who funds Elijah's Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SHELTERING ARMS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANGEL LAYETTES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TYLER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF TYLER ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · T B Butler Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Hoeffner 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 Byers Family 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.
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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