· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of DAVID & ROBIN RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES | $4,000 |
| JONNYCAKE CENTER FOR HOPE | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUEL ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| OCEAN TIDES SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| NARRAGANSETT LIONS CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY | $2,000 |
| INT'L TENNIS HALL OF FAME TEAM | $2,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $2,000 |
| BUTTON HOLE | $2,000 |
| CROSSOVER MISSION | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OCEAN STATE | $2,000 |
| ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL OF IR | $2,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 your grants land in higher-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 +98% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you 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
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
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
- JIJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence and the most unlike its peers is John P Burke Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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 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 Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Narragansett Lions Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR RI SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Economic Opportunities Council of I ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GUIDANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN P BURKE MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
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: 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
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 David & Robin Ryan Family 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.
- 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
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.