How much does The Bybee Foundation give?

The Bybee Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bybee Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (12%).

Who are The Bybee Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Scott & Kim Verplank Foundation ($52k), Dallas Museum of Art ($43k), Quivira Coalition Inc ($24k).

Does The Bybee Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bybee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bybee Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is The Bybee Foundation based?

The Bybee Foundation is based in NM.

The Bybee Foundation

The Bybee Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bybee Foundation

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.

$45k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$91kArts & Culture$76kEnvironment$40kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$15kHuman Services$15kScience & Tech$12kAnimals$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$489k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SCOTT AND KIM VERPLANK FOUNDATION	$8,000
MANZANO MOUNTAIN ART COUNCIL	$4,500
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION	$4,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART	$3,000
HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL	$3,000
QUIVIRA COALITION	$3,000
LEGACY OUTFITTERS	$2,750
CHIHUAHUAN DESERT RESEARCH INST	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
OPERATION KINDNESS	$1,750
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$1,750
WARRIOR BENEFIT	$1,250
BILL WOMACK MEMORIAL CANCER CARE FDN	$1,000
MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES	$1,000

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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$292k · 28 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$292k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%

+242%

Still filing today

57%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

DM
Dallas Museum of Art
8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +338%
QC
QUIVIRA COALITION INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +184%
LO
LEGACY OUTFITTERS
7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

JS
JACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES
one grant, 2018 · $12k
SG
SOUTHWEST GRASSFED LIVESTOCK ALLIANCE
one grant, 2020 · $3k
AL
ANN LACY SCHOOL OF AMERICAN DANCE
one grant, 2021 · $3k

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.

Kimbell Art Foundation

Arts & Culture

Texas Marines Medal of Honor Fund

The texas marines medal of honor fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on the remembrance of the sixteen texas marines and one navy corpsman who received the medal of honor; the maintenance of the texas marine medal of honor…

Arts & Culture

Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

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Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation

We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. may all who leave here know the impact of violence. may this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.

Arts & Culture

Texas Wounded Warriors

The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…

Public Benefit

Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement

Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—

Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education

Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health

Dallas Blue Foundation

Support the dallas police department, officers and families of officers killed or wounded in the line of duty, and to provide college scholarships for children of such officers.

—

Dallas Mavericks Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. 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 44 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)

22/23

Grantees still filing

14/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$115,500Education$69,500Arts & Culture$53,500Philanthropy$35,250Environment$25,000Religion$15,250Animals$10,500

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

4report 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.

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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