· Private foundation
The Byers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Michener Art Center | $50,000 |
| Bucks County Historical Society | $15,000 |
| Williamson College of Trades | $10,000 |
| Doylestown Health Foundation | $10,000 |
| National Maritime Historical Societ | $5,000 |
| Live Like Brent Foundation | $5,000 |
| MBIT Foundation | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DHDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +9%
- TBTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +50%
- NMNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $100k
- JAJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +52%
- HCHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The chester county historical society (the "society") is a nonprofit organization established to inspire, inform and build community identity by preserving and sharing the remarkable story of chester county and its people. the society…
Founded in 1945, the shippensburg historical society is a non-profit membership organizaiton dedicated to the collecting, preserving, and sharing the rich history of shippensburg, pennsylvania and the surronding area.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
The historical society of montgomery county's mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the history of montgomery county, pennsylvania and to educate the public about the region's ongoing multi-faceted cultural story... creating…
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Dcha is a private, non-profit organization that collects, preserves and presents the history and traditions of delaware county and the surrounding region.
To promote historical, genealogical and antiquarian research, to collect & preserve books, papers, maps, etc and to publish results of such research.
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The preservation society of newport county's mission is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in america. we hold in public trust the…
The objective of the franklin county historical society - kittochtinny shall be to foster increased knowledge of the history of franklin county and the cumberland valley through a museum and library, to publish papers of the corporation at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bucks County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mi Refugio Es Jesus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MI REFUGIO ES JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Scripture Union ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds COOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Max & Belle Jacoby Foundation · Morel Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Byers 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.
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.