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Byrd Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$215kHealth$188kFood & Nutrition$111kHousing & Shelter$80kCrime & Legal$41kEducation$36kInternational$36kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIT4KIDS$35,000
CROSSOVER MINISTRY$12,500
HEALING PLACE$10,000
CARITAS$10,000
UPRVA$6,000
STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW$6,000
SWIMRVA$5,000
ARTS FOR HUMANITY$5,000
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$2,500
OREGON FOODBANK$2,000
GRASSROOT SOCCER INC$2,000
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$2,000
COLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY$2,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHALOM FARMS: $3k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $3k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $3k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MA
OR
IN
CA
MO
KY
VA
SC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$751k · 26 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
2

Total granted

$751k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+109%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TC
    THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +140%
  • TH
    THE HEALING PLACE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +91%
  • AF
    ART FOR HUMANITY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • VH
    Virginia Health Care Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +109%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

2
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
3
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
4
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc

The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…

5
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
8
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank

Feed the hungry through a community wide network of partner agencies and engage our community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed More Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr15%48%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr15%56%35–55yr15%7%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,444

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIT4KIDS — $215,000 · OtherFIT4KIDSSTOP CHILD ABUSE NOW — $41,000 · OtherSTOP CHILD ABUSE NOWMEALS ON WHEELS SERVING CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $13,500 · OtherGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $16,000 · OtherSHALOM FARMSINC — $14,000 · Other+11 more — $64,250 · Other+11 moreTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $100,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INCTHE HEALING PLACE — $80,000 · HealthTHE HEALING PLACE+1 more — $3,000 · HealthCARITAS — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITASFEED MORE INC — $28,000 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $11,250 · Food & NutritionCOLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,250 · Food & NutritionVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $2,500 · Food & NutritionART FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,500 · InternationalUP RVA — $16,500 · EducationROOM TO READ — $8,500 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $3,000 · EducationVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $13,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Richmond — $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC — $3,750 · Arts & Culture
Other$363,750Health$183,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Food & Nutrition$52,000International$35,500Education$28,000Arts & Culture$21,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE — $80,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCARITAS — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetART FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUP RVA — $16,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $14,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $11,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $11,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $10,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond — $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC — $3,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT — $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds THE HEALING PLACE
  • Who funds CARITAS
  • Who funds ART FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC
  • Who funds UP RVA
  • Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds COLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK
  • Who funds ROOM TO READ
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond
  • Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK

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.

Carmax FoundationVA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carmax Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Titmus Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Byrd 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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