· Private foundation
The Byers Foundation Ltd
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Byers Charitable Gift Fund | $2,861,243 |
| Mary K Mancini Charitable Fund | $1,430,621 |
| Sheahan Charitable Foundation | $1,430,621 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +75% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M 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
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $610k · revenue +177%- CNCare Net5× · 2017–2021 · $560k · revenue +141%
- COChildrens Oncology Services Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $420k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- LALAKELAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -13%
- ABALLIANCE BIBLE CHURCH INCone grant, 2017 · $35k
FAMILY PROMISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +99%
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.
Providing affordable compassionate care for every pet.
Rescue and shelter sick, injured, abandoned, neglected and unwanted animals and find them permanent, safe and loving homes.
Providing vet care for shelter dogs
To reduce the number of homeless pets by providing high quality, affordable, spay and neuter services.
Provide spay/neuter services to low income families and to find homes for stray and abandonned cats.
To shelter care for unwanted and abandoned pets while attempting to locate adoptive homes for them.
To provide medical care and adoption services for stray, abandoned or owner relinquished domestic animals
Rescue neglected animals
Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome cats and dogs to give every animal a chance at a new beginning.
Our organization rescues dogs, cats, and other animals from shelters, off the streets, or internationally, from abuse, mutilation, war-torn countries, seniors, sick, injured, neglected. We get them all the medical care necessary to get…
To care for homeless animals (providing food, shelter and medical care) and find them a suitable home.
Animal rescue shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeland Animal Welfare Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beaming Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ARE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAMING INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VEST-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCHED BY A PAW INC ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ltd 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.
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
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.