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The Byerly Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$866kPublic Benefit$733kYouth Development$705kAnimals$508kHealth$257kCommunity Improvement$213kHuman Services$154kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $271k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $405k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC$150,000
COKER UNIVERSITY$100,000
CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC$80,000
CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION$75,000
NORTH HARTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOU$8,000
HARTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$8,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HARTSVILLE$8,000
SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCI & MATH FOU$8,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UPPER PEE$8,000
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOA$8,000
HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES$8,000
MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$8,000
CYPRESS ADVENTURES$8,000
BLACK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER$8,000
MERCY MEDICINE CLINIC$8,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $264k) 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 its 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%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 21%CYPRESS ADVENTURES: $8k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $8k → 21%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $40k → 21%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 21%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $8k → 21%KINGDOM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 21%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of The Byerly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 95%.

The Byerly Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 24 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$5.7M
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+42%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • 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
    4× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • 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
  • HH
    Hartsville High
    one grant, 2019 · $38k
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
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
3
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
4
South Carolina Urban Entomology Charitable Alliance
Education
5
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
6
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
7
Darlington Community Foundation

The mission is to improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged and underserved youth and their families through education and advocacy, as well as to serve, provide and unite communities within and across the county of darlington as…

Philanthropy
8
The Agricultural Society of Sc
Philanthropy
9
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
10
South Carolina Empowerment Centre

SCEC launched to address the increasing challenges facing youth along with their families in generational poverty by providing support mentorship and services that encourage youth to realize their full potential.

Community Improvement
11
Gbsc Foundation
Recreation & Sports
12
Dream Center Clinic Inc

Provide free medical care to approximately 6000 patients in North Charleston, Hanahan and West Ashley, SC who are poor and had no health insurance using volunteer doctors, nurses and lay people to provide these services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Child At a Time; the most unlike its peers is Christ Cathedral Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 58 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUTLER ACADEMY: $1,250,000 · EducationBUTLER ACADEMYCOKER UNIVERSITY: $475,000 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITYSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $138,000 · EducationSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR…Carolina's Kids: $86,600 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationCITY OF HARTSVILLE: $733,084 · OtherCITY OF HARTSVILLEHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING COMMISSION: $519,000 · OtherHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING …DARLINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $83,000 · OtherHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUN…+31 more: $556,413 · Other+31 moreCHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD AND …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $186,250 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…+1 more: $13,900 · Youth DevelopmentCypress Adventures Inc: $328,000 · Human ServicesCypress A…DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $78,000 · Human ServicesDARLINGTO…Trent Hill Center for Children & Families: $58,500 · Human ServicesTrent Hil…Hartsville Interfaith Ministries: $41,000 · Human ServicesHartsvill…+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesDarlington County Humane Society Inc: $500,000 · AnimalsDarlingto…Butler Heritage Foundation Inc: $215,500 · Arts & CultureMAN 2 MAN FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE OF: $102,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $236,000 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,050 · Health+2 more: $16,000 · Health
Education$1,960,600Other$2,091,497Youth Development$600,150Human Services$513,500Animals$500,000Arts & Culture$333,500Health$270,050

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $475,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetCypress Adventures Inc: $328,000 over 5y, 64% of budgetCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $236,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetButler Heritage Foundation Inc: $215,500 over 2y, 42% of budgetHARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $186,250 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $138,000 over 3y, 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: $78,000 over 3y, 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: $58,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHartsville Interfaith Ministries: $41,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $27,695 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Hartsville: $26,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $16,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBlack Creek Arts Council Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% 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 budgetKINGDOM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNEW VISION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY PROGRESS INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetONE CHILD AT A TIME: $8,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetRUBICON INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARPS SC: $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHRIST CITY OF REFUGE: $8,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCHRIST CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS HART ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    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
    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 58 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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