· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SURF CITY FIRE & EMS | $7,400 |
| BEACH HAVEN VOL FIRE CO #1 | $5,000 |
| SURFLIGHT THEATER | $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 |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,000 |
| SHIP BOTTOM VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| RECLAM THE BAY | $1,000 |
| LBI HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -72%
- EAEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $660 · revenue +434%
- NKNational Kidney Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +16%
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BEACH HAVEN FIRST AID SQUAD ↗
- Who funds Barnegat Light First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds SHIP BOTTOM VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1 INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RECLAM THE BAY ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Angela Ryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Angela Ryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on James and Angela Ryan’s filings →