· Private foundation
David & Robin Ryan Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES | $4,000 |
| OCEAN TIDES SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| NARRAGANSETT LIONS CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| JONNYCAKE CENTER FOR HOPE | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUEL ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE | $2,000 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES | $2,000 |
| ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL OF IR | $2,000 |
| HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER | $2,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $2,000 |
| CROSSOVER MISSION | $2,000 |
| DAY ONE | $2,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $29k · revenue +110%- FSFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +32%
BUTTON HOLE9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +171%
Funded once
THE GRODEN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +28%- JCJOHNNYCAKE CENTER FOR HOPEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- NLNARRAGANSETT LIONS CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +211%
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.
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.
Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…
The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.
Children's services
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Inspiring minds empowers students to succeed in school and life by supporting them with trusted relationships, tutoring and mentoring from inspired community members.
Ser's mission is to provide literacy and job training services for economically disadvantaged rhode islanders so that they may improve their quality of life.
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.
To provide residential and day treatment programs for children and adults with developmental delays, and emotional or behavioral disorders.
The hope center for kids strives to faithfully inspire hope in the lives of youth and children through education, employability, collaboration and faith.
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Narragansett Lions Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR RI SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Economic Opportunities Council of I ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GUIDANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN P BURKE MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · Quail Valley Charities Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David & Robin Ryan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Robin Ryan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Economic Opportunities Council of I: 82% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Alliance for Children Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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