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Floyd a & Alta I Byrne Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$83kFood & Nutrition$29kEducation$12kRecreation & Sports$8kHealth$7kHousing & Shelter$6kPublic Benefit$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$769k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Livingston county Food Pantry$15,500
City of Pontiac$10,000
City of Pontiac$7,000
Pontiac Alano Club$4,500
Pontiac Chamber of Commerce$3,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Livingston County War Museum: $12k → 11%Livingston County Special Services Unit: $2k → 12%Girl Scouts of Central Illinois: $1k → 14%Livingston County Concert Association: $4k → 11%Livingston county Food Pantry: $16k → 12%City of Pontiac: $3k → 11%Livingston County Food Pantry: $15k → 12%Pontiac Area Chamber of Commerce: $3k → 11%Livingston County Food Pantry: $12k → 12%Futures Unlimited: $2k → 11%Pontiac Public Library: $12k → 12%Girl Scouts of Central Illinois: $1k → 11%City of Pontiac: $10k → 12%Girl Scouts of Central Illinois: $1k → 11%Livingston County Concert Association: $10k → 12%Greater Livingston County Arts Council: $10k → 12%War Museum: $10k → 12%City of Pontiac: $10k → 12%Livingston County Concert Association: $10k → 12%Pontiac High School Athletic Training Dept: $8k → 12%City of Pontiac: $7k → 12%Livingston County Homeless Coalition: $6k → 12%City of Pontiac: $5k → 12%City of Pontiac: $5k → 12%Greater Livingston County Arts Council: $5k → 12%Futures Unlimited: $5k → 12%Pontiac Alano Club: $5k → 12%City of Pontiac: $4k → 12%Pontiac Chamber of Commerce: $3k → 12%VFW Post 886: $1k → 12%Pontiac Jr High: $1k → 12%Pontiac Jr High Dist 429: $1k → 12%Pontiac District 429 Food Drive: $1k → 12%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$136k · 6 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -35% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$136k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-35%

Still filing today

33%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CO
    City of Pontiac
    5× · 2020–2026 · $44k
  • LC
    Livingston county Food Pantry
    3× · 2024–2026 · $43k
  • LC
    Livingston County Concert Association
    3× · 2020–2025 · $24k

Funded once

  • PP
    Pontiac Public Library
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • LC
    Livingston County War Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • WM
    War Museum
    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
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Pontiac: $44,000 · OtherCity of PontiacLivingston county Food Pantry: $42,500 · OtherLivingston county Food PantryLivingston County Concert Association: $24,305 · OtherLivingston County Concert AssociationGREATER LIVINGSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherGREATER LIVINGSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCILPontiac Public Library: $12,000 · OtherPontiac Public LibraryLivingston County War Museum: $12,000 · OtherLivingston County War MuseumWar Museum: $10,000 · OtherPontiac High School Athletic Training Dept: $7,500 · OtherFUTURES UNLIMITED INC: $7,000 · Other+10 more: $25,750 · Other+10 more
Other$200,055

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUTURES UNLIMITED INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPONTIAC AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $3,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds FUTURES UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PONTIAC AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Floyd a & Alta I Byrne Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Floyd a & Alta I Byrne Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Floyd a & Alta I Byrne Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Floyd a & Alta I Byrne Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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