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Kelly S Byron Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$15kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$7kAnimals$5kEnvironment$1kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$600Civil Rights$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,050
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$600
THE PANTRY OF BROWARD$500
ASPCA$500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$500
Individual grant recipient$300
FRIENDS OF JAMAICA$300
THE PET COTTAGE$150
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION$100
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$100
SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER$100
APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY$100
BIG DOG RESCUE RANCH$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IRON FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
CA
WV
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 15 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 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

15
12

Total granted

$45k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+112%

Still filing today

47%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • TP
    THE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +247%
  • AT
    APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $900 · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • AA
    Alzheimer's Association
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • ML
    Mended Little Hearts
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

1
Animal Rescue Force Inc

Established in 1974, the organization's mission is to find responsible homes for dogs and cats and to encourage all dog and cat owners to spay and neuter their pets.

Animals
2
Animal Rescue Corps Inc

To end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. The Organization rescues animals who fall victim to abuse and natural disaster.

Animals
3
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
4
Alley Cat Rescue Inc

ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers.…

Animals
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
6
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue Inc

Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…

Animals
7
Rainbow Rescues
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8
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
9
Best Friends Animal Society

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.

Animals
10
Pet Rescue Incorporated

Pet rescue inc. is committed to the rescue of abandoned and abused cats and dogs, and uses funds raised to provide veterinary care, neutering and spaying services, food and a home for these animals.

—
11
Tri County Humane Society

Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…

Animals
12
Animal Rescue Coalition Inc

Arc benefits animals and the people who love them by providing access to affordable spay/neuter surgeries and wellness.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITY OF POMPANO BEACH: $14,950 · OtherUNITY OF POMPANO BEACHIndividual grant recipient: $13,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAlzheimer's Association: $6,000 · OtherAlzheimer's AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $1,850 · Other+15 more: $8,910 · Other+15 moreTHE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC: $6,540 · Food & NutritionTHE PANTRY O…SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,350 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $700 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 · AnimalsPet Cottage Inc: $350 · AnimalsIRON FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $900 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $1,350 · Recreation & SportsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $600 · Civil RightsBLUE RIBBON COALITION INC: $149 · Environment
Other$44,910Food & Nutrition$6,540Animals$2,900Human Services$2,400Recreation & Sports$1,350Civil Rights$600Environment$149

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC: $6,540 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Cottage Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIBBON COALITION INC: $149 over 1y, 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 THE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds IRON FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Pet Cottage Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIBBON COALITION INC ↗

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
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 Kelly S Byron Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly S Byron Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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