· Private foundation
The Jaye F and Betty F Dyer 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Jaye F and Betty F Dyer Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Western North Carolina Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Jaye F and Betty F Dyer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 29 organizations, $539k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICROGRANTS | $75,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC | $35,000 |
| MAD DADS OF MINNEAPOLIS | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GLOBAL MARKET | $30,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| WOMEN VENTURE | $25,000 |
| THE LIFT GARAGE | $20,000 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| URBAN VENTURES | $20,000 |
| EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| URBAN HOMEWORKS | $15,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP RESOURCES INC | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES RISE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
41 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- PFPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +19%
- MDMAD DADS of Minneapolis4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +45%
- TBTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MFMAYO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -77%
- MCMINNEAPOLIS CHAPTER OF MAD DADSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hired and the most unlike its peers is The Lift Garage. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MAD DADS of Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds Partnership Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HIRED ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds Breaking Free Inc ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACCESSABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds OSIRIS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIO-180 ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Target Foundation · The James M Stanton Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser 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 Jaye F and Betty F Dyer 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.
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