· Private foundation
Will and Bailee Byler Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE | $6,869,887 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,000,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $1,000,000 |
| KSBJ | $250,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $220,000 |
| CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| BELLVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $200,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $130,000 |
| TURNING POINT CHURCH | $100,000 |
| AGORA MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
| HALFTIME INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
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, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Will and Bailee Byler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- FAFAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE3× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +170% · 81% of their budget
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +62%
- CACHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $720k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE - BELLVILLE TXone grant, 2022 · $53k
- BHBELLVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -90%
Camp For All Foundationone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -17%
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.
Provide fire protection and rescue to the Devine, Texas area as well as training and education
To promote the youth of bell county through 4-h, fha & ffa projects.
Provide an opportunity for youth to participate in meaningful experiences of competition through livestock show exhibitions.
Provide fire suppression and first responder services to the Boerne, Tx area as well as provide support to the Boerne Fire Department.
Multi texas county volunteer fire & ambulance services
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Provides fire protection and response and first responder services for medical emergencies to carmine, texas and surrounding areas
North Texas High School Rodeo Association (NTHSRA) governs 28+ championship Association sanctioned rodeos each year.
Provide facilities, services, and programming for churches and groups to promote Christian education character building activities and recreation.
Provides protection, preservation, and well-being of the health, safety, and property of persons residing in the rural areas of kaufman county, tx .
Programs, training, conventions and travel to reach youth for jesus christ.
Train homeschool athletes to excel in character
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Texas Youth Rodeo Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 58 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 FAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AGORA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HALFTIME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BELLVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA AND ITS 42117 BELLVILLE FFA ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds Vision Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM'S ANGELS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COUNTY YOUTH RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO ASSOCIATIO ↗
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: Margaret Chesley Memorial Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Will and Bailee Byler 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.