How much does Byrd Family Foundation give?

Byrd Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Byrd Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (14%).

Who are Byrd Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Cross-Over Ministry Inc ($100k), The Healing Place ($80k), Caritas ($80k).

Does Byrd Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Byrd Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Byrd Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carmax Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.

Where is Byrd Family Foundation based?

Byrd Family Foundation is based in VA.

Byrd Family Foundation

Byrd Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Byrd Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $48k
$10k–50k4 grants · $68k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK	$2,000
OREGON FOODBANK	$2,000
COLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY	$2,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK	$2,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK	$2,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

Total granted

$751k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

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%

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.

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.

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Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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

Food & Nutrition

Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition

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…

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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

Vermont Foodbank

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

Food & Nutrition

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed More Inc; 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.

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 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$363,750Health$183,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Food & Nutrition$52,000International$35,500Education$28,000Arts & Culture$21,250

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

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.

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

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 Byrd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byrd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home