· Private foundation
Donald C & Doris K Byers Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $365,038 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTRE FOR ARTS AND ARTISTS3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +835%
- NYNEWTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +68%
- NANEWTON ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +328%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $1k
- NLNEWTON LIONS CLUB3× · 2020–2022 · $1k
- PFPI FOUNDATIONgraduated3× · 2020–2022 · $500 · revenue +76%
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.
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.
Support the newton public library
Iowa PTA group for a Newton Iowa Community School
Agriculture promotion
Increase the quantity and quality of housing in newton, iowa
Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.
The newton development corporation strives to improve the economic well-being of the newton community. we accomplishthis through collaboration with other community stakeholders to increase investment in newton by retaining, growing,and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald C & Doris K Byers Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald C & Doris K Byers Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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