· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Byers Charitable Gift Fund | $2,861,243 |
| Mary K Mancini Charitable Fund | $1,430,621 |
| Sheahan Charitable Foundation | $1,430,621 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Byers Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Byers Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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