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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$516kRecreation & Sports$443kEnvironment$287kScience & Tech$237kHousing & Shelter$225kReligion$174kPhilanthropy$122kAnimals$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARDENS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK$60,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$39,000
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS$39,000
RIVET SCHOOL$25,000
ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN$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
ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY$12,000
SWEETWATER SPECTRUM$12,000
THE MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,000
MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION$10,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $12k → 9%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $2k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $10k → 9%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $2k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $8k → 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $8k → 9%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $1k → 10%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $8k → 9%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $1k → 10%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $6k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $5k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 45 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
20

Total granted

$2.0M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+36%

Still filing today

80%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $231k · revenue +4%
  • BA
    Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School
    8× · 2018–2025 · $223k · revenue +376%
  • SW
    SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • HB
    HARVARD BKUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • GC
    Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Deptgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +71%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
2
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
3
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
4
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
5
California State Parks Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN: $163,000 · OtherADOPT A FAMILY OF MARINST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH ROSS: $133,500 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH ROSSSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $85,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDENIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $49,000 · OtherIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS H…USA CYCLING FOUNDATION: $34,000 · OtherDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $47,000 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP+38 more: $191,254 · Other+38 moreBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $223,000 · EducationBay Area Hybrid College Ini…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $76,000 · EducationMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALIT…MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $48,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY+6 more: $31,250 · Education+6 moreSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $215,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WITHOUT…RAD CAMP INC: $41,000 · Recreation & SportsRAD CAMP INCHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND …+2 more: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $231,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA A…AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $13,370 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CON…+1 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $170,000 · EnvironmentSAN FRANCI…MARIN GARDEN CLUB: $12,200 · EnvironmentMARIN GARD…NATUREBRIDGE: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOakland Lacrosse Club: $6,000 · Human ServicesMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$731,754Education$528,250Recreation & Sports$280,500Arts & Culture$247,870Environment$196,200Human Services$118,000Philanthropy$100,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $231,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $223,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $215,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $170,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN: $163,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $76,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $62,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $47,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAD CAMP INC: $41,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARWISE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $13,370 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN GARDEN CLUB: $12,200 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetROTARUN SKI CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Lacrosse Club: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCity Surf Project: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTiburon Peninsula Soccer League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $3,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTahoe Area Mountain Biking Association: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $3,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BALBOA PENINSULA POINT: $2,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAWTOOTH NATIONAL FOREST AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of China Camp Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 FARWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GARDEN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ROTARUN SKI CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Lacrosse Club ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Belvedere Community F…The Griffith Family F…Robert and Dana Emery…The Springcreek Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Salesforce FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Yelp FoundationNational Philanthropi…
Marin Community FoundationCA35.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 5 Ryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 5 Ryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    The endowment market
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