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Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan at a glance

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Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan

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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$8.4MEnvironment$7.6MInternational$3.0MReligion$2.7MRecreation & Sports$2.4MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.6MAnimals$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $739k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.9M
$30,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$1,500,000
ONE VILLAGE PROJECT$625,000
SETON HAYS FOUNDATION$500,000
KATHERINE ANN PORTER SCHOOL$400,000
EARTH MISSION ASIA$400,000
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$389,259
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$300,000
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$300,000
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$275,000
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$250,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$200,000
TEXAS REGIONAL PARALYMPIC SPORT$130,000
ENHANCED LIVING INC$100,000
EARTH MISSION ASIA$100,000
YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION$85,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $644k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%CANINE COMPANIONS: $5k → 9%ENHANCED LIVING INC: $310k → 10%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $48k → 23%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $25k → 16%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $30k → 23%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $4k → 16%ENHANCED LIVING INC: $100k → 10%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 23%ENHANCED LIVING INC: $20k → 10%ENHANCED LIVING INC: $7k → 10%WARREN VILLAGE: $4k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $815 → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%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

VT
WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 117 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
79

Total granted

$26M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +53% · 74% of their budget
  • WV
    Wimberley Valley Watershed Association
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +292% · 97% of their budget
  • YR
    YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +272% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • AP
    ALPHA-OMEGA PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $462k · revenue -73%
  • HO
    HTHSCT OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $350k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
5
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
6
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
7
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
8
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
11
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra Society Inc. 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

120 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. 120 of the 211 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/120
Grantees still filing
82/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION: $3,770,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATIONTHE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $2,764,259 · OtherTHE WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONEARTH MISSION - ASIA: $2,497,500 · OtherEARTH MISSION - ASIACYPRESS CREEK CHURCH: $1,140,500 · Other+133 more: $12,300,825 · Other+133 moreWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $3,074,000 · EducationWimberley Vall…KATHERINE ANNE PORTER SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationKATHERINE ANNE…Texas A&M Foundation: $396,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foun…+12 more: $453,500 · Education+12 moreYELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION: $1,281,500 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTO…One Village Project: $625,000 · EnvironmentOne Villa…MONTANA AUDUBON: $385,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA A…OUR MONTANA INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentOUR MONTA…AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $123,000 · Environment+4 more: $201,000 · Environment+4 moreCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $975,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $475,000 · HealthTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $205,000 · HealthFORGOTTEN DISEASES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Health+6 more: $110,500 · HealthAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $400,000 · AnimalsWIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION: $335,000 · AnimalsDIVINE CANINES: $105,000 · AnimalsThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $77,000 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $63,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $50,000 · Animals+5 more: $50,000 · AnimalsENHANCED LIVING INC: $437,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $320,000 · Human ServicesCenter Pole: $153,000 · Human Services+5 more: $90,000 · Human ServicesFree the Oppressed: $300,000 · InternationalDIRECT AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $274,000 · InternationalArbitrary Hill Foundation: $130,000 · InternationalDEED & TRUTH MINISTRIES INC: $125,000 · InternationalBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $42,000 · International+5 more: $35,500 · International
Other$22,473,084Education$4,323,500Environment$2,825,500Health$1,870,500Animals$1,080,000Human Services$1,000,000International$906,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION: $3,770,000 over 7y, 74% of budgetWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $3,074,000 over 6y, 97% of budgetYELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION: $1,281,500 over 9y, 45% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $975,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $543,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $475,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH MISSION INC: $466,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetENHANCED LIVING INC: $437,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKATHERINE ANNE PORTER SCHOOL: $400,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $396,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA AUDUBON: $385,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $350,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetWIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION: $335,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $320,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $300,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetFree the Oppressed: $300,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY: $291,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetDIRECT AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $274,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetTHE THAI CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetOUR MONTANA INC: $210,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $205,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAGENTS FOR CHRIST: $202,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCenter Pole: $153,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRETTY SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $134,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $133,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas: $128,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetDEED & TRUTH MINISTRIES INC: $125,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $123,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLS CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWIMBERLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $112,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDIVINE CANINES: $105,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetVISIONTRUST INTERNATIONAL INC: $104,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $93,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $88,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAMA DRAGONS: $80,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetEmilyAnn Theatre Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $77,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSWAYS INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $63,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Wimberley Valley Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
  • Who funds One Village Project ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds EARTH MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA-OMEGA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ENHANCED LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds KATHERINE ANNE PORTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Free the Oppressed ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT AID INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE THAI CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AGENTS FOR CHRIST ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Burdine Johnson F…Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Abundant Grace Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Humanities MontanaThe Dallas FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Brown Foundation …Foundation for Commun…Billings Community Fo…Ingram Family Foundat…
The Burdine Johnson FoundationTX27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Burdine Johnson Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Abundant Grace Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Humanities Montana · The Dallas Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Foundation for Community Vitality · Billings Community Foundation · Ingram Family Foundation

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 Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Rogue Valley Farm to School: 17% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 211 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 unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home