· Private foundation
Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k50 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION | $120,000 |
| INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC | $40,000 |
| YMCA | $16,000 |
| CASA | $12,500 |
| MERITUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,784 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,200 |
| ADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| MARY'S HOME MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| HOMEAID NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $6,100 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURG AND MORGANTOWN | $5,000 |
| KIDS AND PROS INC | $5,000 |
| MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOW COUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON CO | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- FRFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $195k · revenue +76%
- IHINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $146k · revenue +14%
- YOYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $37k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CCCARROLL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- AHAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-MIDATLANTIC AFFILIATEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +135%
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.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
The ronald mcdonald house charities of charlottesville, inc is organized to maintain and operate one or more facilities in the area of charlottesville, virginia to provide temporary housing for seriously ill children and their families…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, the medstar visiting nurse association provides personalized home health care for homebound patients in maryland, northern virginia, and the district of columbia. its mission is to make a…
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is Riverside High School Athletic Booster Club. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 126 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 FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY'S HOME MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE LIVING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Trust Fund of Northern Virginia (dba Homeaid Northern Virginia) ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS & PROS INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PGCPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc
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 Dan Ryan Builders Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Meritus Health Foundation Inc — 94% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Frederick Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Star Community Inc — 2% of income from government
- Frederick Health Hospital Inc — 2% of income from government
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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