California · 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.
- $408k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations 5 Ryan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $395k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $348k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $277k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $272k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $294k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $188k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $144k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $164k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Academy of Sciences | $231,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School | $223,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Soccer Without Borders | $215,000 | 8 | 1% |
| San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum | $170,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Adopt a Family of Marin | $163,000 | 8 | 2% |
| St Johns Episcopal Church Ross | $133,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lehigh University | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Marin County Bicycle Coalition | $76,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sweetwater Spectrum Inc | $62,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 5 Ryan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About 5 Ryan Foundation
- How much does 5 Ryan Foundation give?
- 5 Ryan Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $407,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does 5 Ryan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Environment (13%).
- Who are 5 Ryan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: California Academy of Sciences ($231k), Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ($223k), Soccer Without Borders ($215k).
- Does 5 Ryan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does 5 Ryan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as 5 Ryan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is 5 Ryan Foundation based?
- 5 Ryan Foundation is based in CA.
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