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The Byers Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Byers Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$341kHealth$153kEnvironment$150kFood & Nutrition$100kReligion$26kYouth Development$10kEducation$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Michener Art Center$50,000
Bucks County Historical Society$15,000
Doylestown Health Foundation$10,000
Williamson College of Trades$10,000
National Maritime Historical Societ$5,000
Live Like Brent Foundation$5,000
MBIT Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Perkasie Historical Sociey: $10k → 6%Church of the Open Door: $1k → 7%Williamson College of Trades: $10k → 10%Salvation Army: $100k → 22%National Maritime Historical Societ: $5k → 9%Mi Refugio Es Jesus: $15k → 11%Cookies for Kids Cancer: $3k → 4%Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $5k → 7%Doylestown Health Foundation: $110k → 6%Live Like Brent Foundation: $5k → 22%National Maritime Historical Soc: $3k → 9%Bucks County Historical Society: $100k → 6%Heritage Conservancy: $100k → 6%James A Michener Art Museum: $100k → 6%Michener Art Center: $50k → 6%Bucks Beautiful: $50k → 6%County Theater: $40k → 6%Ann Silverman Community Health Clin: $25k → 6%Bucks County Historical Society: $15k → 6%Doylestown Health Foundation: $10k → 6%Boy Scouts of America: $10k → 6%DOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 6%Life Abundant Ministries: $5k → 6%Bucks County Playhouse: $5k → 6%MBIT Foundation: $5k → 6%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 3 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$243k
$486k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +9%
  • TB
    THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +50%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • SA
    Salvation Army
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • HC
    HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -60%
  • JA
    JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +52%
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
Chester County Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Shippensburg Historical Society Inc

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.

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3
Delaware County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Historical Society of Montgomery County

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Missouri Historical Society

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.…

Arts & Culture
6
Delaware County Historical Association

Dcha is a private, non-profit organization that collects, preserves and presents the history and traditions of delaware county and the surrounding region.

Arts & Culture
7
Historical Society of Cheshire County

To promote historical, genealogical and antiquarian research, to collect & preserve books, papers, maps, etc and to publish results of such research.

Arts & Culture
8
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
9
American Jewish Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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11
The Preservation Society of Newport County

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Franklin County Historical Society- Kittochtinny

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bucks County Historical Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $115,000 · OtherTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCSalvation Army: $100,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyMichener Art Center: $50,000 · OtherMichener Art Center+9 more: $59,000 · Other+9 moreHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INCJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUMCOUNTY THEATER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTY THEATER INC+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FO…ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthANN SILVERMAN COMMUN…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthBUCKS BEAUTIFUL INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentMI REFUGIO ES JESUS INC: $15,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $10,000 · Education
Other$324,000Arts & Culture$252,500Health$147,500Environment$50,000Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $115,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBUCKS BEAUTIFUL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMI REFUGIO ES JESUS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetWASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScripture Union: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP: $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Marvin and Dee Wo…Bucks County Conferen…Penn Community Bank F…Max & Belle Jacoby Fo…Morel Family Foundati…Raymond James Charita…Chubb Charitable Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable FoundationPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 23 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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