Delaware · Private foundation
The Byerly 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.
- $676k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Byerly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $676k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $800k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $927k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $900k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $842k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $841k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Academy | $1,250,000 | 5 | 31% |
| City of Hartsville | $733,084 | 3 | n/a |
| Darlington County Humane Society Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Coker University | $475,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Child and Family Resource Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 65% |
| Cypress Adventures Inc | $328,000 | 5 | 64% |
| Carefirst Carolina Foundation | $236,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Butler Heritage Foundation Inc | $215,500 | 2 | 42% |
| Hartsville Community Development Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 97% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Pee Dee Area Inc | $186,250 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($786k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Byerly Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation · The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker Foundation · United Way of Greater Hartsville · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Malloy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Hartsville Community Development Foundation Inc · South Carolina Student Loan Corp · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First
How this is measured
About The Byerly Foundation
- How much does The Byerly Foundation give?
- The Byerly Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $676,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Byerly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (15%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are The Byerly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Butler Academy ($1.3M), City of Hartsville ($733k), Darlington County Humane Society Inc ($500k).
- Does The Byerly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Byerly 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 Byerly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Byerly Foundation based?
- The Byerly Foundation is based in DE.
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