· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $739k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $1,500,000 |
| ONE VILLAGE PROJECT | $625,000 |
| SETON HAYS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| EARTH MISSION ASIA | $400,000 |
| KATHERINE ANN PORTER SCHOOL | $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 |
| EARTH MISSION ASIA | $100,000 |
| ENHANCED LIVING INC | $100,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION | $85,000 |
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, $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 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 +46% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
- ASASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +53% · 74% of their budget
- WVWimberley Valley Watershed Association6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +292% · 97% of their budget
- YRYELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +272% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- APALPHA-OMEGA PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $462k · revenue -73%
- HOHTHSCT OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2022 · $350k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $300k
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
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…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
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…
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…
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…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
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…
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 211 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 Free the Oppressed ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- 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 ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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
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 Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.