How much did NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION reported 15 grants totaling $1,137,957 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION based?

NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION is based in TX.

NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION

The foundation is organized to perform charitable and educational activities within the meaning of internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) and texas tax code section 11.1b(c)(1).

$1.1M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$600k

Largest

01What you fund

0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$695kRecreation & Sports$269kPhilanthropy$127kHuman Services$100kYouth Development$55kHealth$25kOther$301k

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k13 grants · $239k
$50k–250k1 grant · $130k
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$600,000
RBI AUSTIN$130,000
NELSON FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION$29,399
ROUND ROCK AREA SERVING CENTE$27,500
HOPE ALLIANCE$25,000
AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY$25,000
HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY$25,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$25,000
ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS$18,500
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDRE$13,300
CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION$10,000
RELATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES$10,000
LEARNING BRIDGE$10,000
CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS$10,000
CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 27% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$609k · 8 repeat orgs$962k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +200% since the first grant, against +100% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$609k

$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+200%

+100%

Still filing today

100%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $723k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

RA
RBI AUSTIN
4× · 2022–2025 · $215k · revenue +89%
HA
HOPE ALLIANCE
6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +260%
RR
ROUND ROCK AREA SERVING CENTE
4× · 2022–2025 · $103k · revenue +200%

Funded once

YO
YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON AREAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TEXASgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1411%
BD
BREES DREAM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -54%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Texans Care for Children Inc

Texas Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to life.

Crime & Legal

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

Texans for Lawsuit Reform

TLR works to shape policy on creating a fair and predictable Texas civil justice system.

Crime & Legal

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

To be Texas' foremost champion of individual rights & freedoms through education & litigation.

Civil Rights

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

Annually, the Texas Business Hall of Fame inducts six transformational business leaders and funds an awards program for up to 40 entrepreneurial students in the higher education space, veteran company, high school business education space…

Community Improvement

Texprotects-the Texas Association for

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

Camp Fire Central Texas

Camp Fire Central Texas builds caring, confident youth and future leaders through hands-on science, outdoor experiences, and service to the community.

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North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Just Keep Livin Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas a&M Foundation. 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 22 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,774

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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$695,000Other$301,063Recreation & Sports$268,500Philanthropy$126,589Human Services$100,112Youth Development$55,000Health$25,000

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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Central Texas Community Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Charles Schwab Foundation · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · Chisholm Trail Communities Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson

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 organisation NOLAN 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AUSTIN MIRACLE LEAGUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~98 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562481098 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AUSTIN MIRACLE LEAGUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 98 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 49% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Nolan Ryan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nolan Ryan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nolan Ryan Foundation?

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NOLAN RYAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nolan Ryan Foundation?

More from the funding graph