· Private foundation
James and Angela Ryan 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SURF CITY FIRE & EMS | $7,400 |
| SURFLIGHT THEATER | $5,000 |
| BEACH HAVEN VOL FIRE CO #1 | $5,000 |
| HIGH POINT VOL FIRE CO | $3,000 |
| LBI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HUNGER FOUNDATION SOUTHERN OCEAN | $1,700 |
| SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $1,500 |
| BEACH HAVEN FIRST AID SQUAD | $1,000 |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT FIRST AID SQUAD | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,000 |
| SHIP BOTTOM VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| RECLAM THE BAY | $1,000 |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| LBI HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 13% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SCSURF CITY FIRE & EMS4× · 2022–2025 · $116k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +59%
- BOBOROUGH OF SURF CITY2× · 2022–2023 · $13k
Funded once
- SLSAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- EAEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $660 · revenue +434%
- NKNational Kidney Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +16%
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.
Volunteer first aid squad
Put out fires
Organization is a volunteer first aid squad servicing various townships and municipalities in sussex county, nj
Provide fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the Stony Brook fire district 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY SERVING POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NJ AND VICINITY. The purpose of this Fire Company is to voluntarily render aid in extinguishing fires and to provide emergency services to the Borough of Point Pleasant Beach and…
Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Squad
To provide fire protection services
Berkeley Township Underwater Search & Rescue, Squad 86, is a non-profit organization that provides public safety dive team capabilities to communities, partners, and neighbors. We match key skills and techniques developed over the past 45…
Our mission is to provide our neighbors in strathmere and whale beach (new jersey) a well trained and qualified team for the timely response to emergencies in order to preserve life, property and our environment from fire and other…
Provide fire protection to the community of borough of bay head, nj. assist mutual aid fire companies in the area. furnish other emergency aid when needed and provide fire education and safety programs. the fire company typically responds…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beach Haven First Aid Squad and the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BEACH HAVEN FIRST AID SQUAD ↗
- Who funds SAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SHIP BOTTOM VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1 INC ↗
- Who funds Barnegat Light First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds RECLAM THE BAY ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James and Angela Ryan 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.
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.