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The Byerly Foundation

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.

$800k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$866kPublic Benefit$733kYouth Development$705kAnimals$508kHealth$257kCommunity Improvement$213kHuman Services$154kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $430k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARLINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC$250,000
BUTLER ACADEMY$200,000
CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION$150,000
CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC$80,000
DARLINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$43,750
DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$40,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HARTSVILLE$18,000
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,050
THOMAS HART ACADEMY$3,000
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $51k → 21%CYPRESS ADVENTURES: $20k → 21%CYPRESS ADVENTURES: $20k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $18k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $15k → 21%CYPRESS ADVENTURES: $15k → 21%CYPRESS ADVENTURES: $15k → 21%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $40k → 21%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Byerly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Byerly Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 17 repeat orgs$792k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$4.8M
$717k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BA
    BUTLER ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +528% · 31% of their budget
  • DC
    Darlington County Humane Society Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +67%
  • CU
    COKER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $375k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • BH
    Butler Heritage Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $208k · revenue -70% · 42% of their budget
  • M2
    MAN 2 MAN FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE OFgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue +45%
  • CK
    Carolina's Kids
    one grant, 2019 · $87k · revenue -64% · 63% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
2
J Harold Smith Carolina Scholars
Philanthropy
3
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
Auxiliary of Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center

Award Post Secondary Scholarships to Students Attending South Carolina Colleges and Universities Benevolence for Patients Improvement and Quailty of life Benevolence for Hospital Facilities

Philanthropy
6
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
7
South Carolina Public Health Associ

Provide education on topics relating to current public health issues

Health
8
South Carolina Urban Entomology Charitable Alliance
Education
9
Gbsc Foundation
Recreation & Sports
10
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
11
Harrells Christian Academy

The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…

Education
12
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr16%20%10–20yr13%35%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%38%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr13%25%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
17%
505/2,952

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUTLER ACADEMY — $1,250,000 · EducationBUTLER ACADEMYCOKER UNIVERSITY — $375,000 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITYSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · EducationSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR S…Carolina's Kids — $86,600 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationCITY OF HARTSVILLE — $733,084 · OtherCITY OF HARTSVILLEHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING COMMISSION — $519,000 · OtherHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING C…CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $156,000 · OtherCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION+22 more — $482,213 · Other+22 moreDarlington County Humane Society Inc — $500,000 · AnimalsDarlington…Cypress Adventures Inc — $320,000 · Human ServicesCypress A…DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $70,000 · Human ServicesDARLINGTO…Trent Hill Center for Children & Families — $50,500 · Human ServicesTrent Hil…Hartsville Interfaith Ministries — $33,000 · Human ServicesHartsvill…CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION — $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC — $36,250 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA — $13,900 · Youth DevelopmentButler Heritage Foundation Inc — $207,500 · Arts & CultureMAN 2 MAN FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE OF — $102,000 · Arts & CultureHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,844,600Other$1,890,297Animals$500,000Human Services$473,500Youth Development$375,150Arts & Culture$309,500Community Improvement$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUTLER ACADEMY — $1,250,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetDarlington County Humane Society Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY — $375,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetCypress Adventures Inc — $320,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetButler Heritage Foundation Inc — $207,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $156,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetMAN 2 MAN FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE OF — $102,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCarolina's Kids — $86,600 over 1y, 63% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $70,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY — $60,938 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT — $58,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTrent Hill Center for Children & Families — $50,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC — $36,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHartsville Interfaith Ministries — $33,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $27,695 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Hartsville — $18,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $16,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA — $13,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS HART ACADEMY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationJoan Sasser Coker and…The Charles W & Eliza…United Way of Greater…Eastern Carolina Comm…Malloy FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Assurant FoundationHartsville Community …South Carolina Studen…First Citizens Founda…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC44.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Byerly Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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