· Private foundation
5 Ryan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDENS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK | $60,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $39,000 |
| SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS | $39,000 |
| ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN | $25,000 |
| RIVET SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | $24,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ROSS | $22,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| SWEETWATER SPECTRUM | $12,000 |
| THE MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $12,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RAD CAMP | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% 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.
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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES8× · 2018–2025 · $231k · revenue +4%
- BABay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School8× · 2018–2025 · $223k · revenue +233%
- SWSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS8× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +235%
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $20k
- HBHARVARD BKUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $12k
- GCGarren Creek Volunteer Fire Deptgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +71%
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.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
California state parks foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the california state park system for the benefit of all.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 77 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 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds RAD CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
- Who funds ROTARUN SKI CLUB ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Oakland Lacrosse Club ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Belvedere Community Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · The Springcreek Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Salesforce Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Yelp Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 5 Ryan 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.