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Ryals Family Foundation at a glance

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Ryals Family 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$75kArts & Culture$62kEnvironment$26kHuman Services$20kCrime & Legal$13kHealth$10kAnimals$9kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS CENTER$6,000
PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,250
NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CASA OF PUEBLO INC$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $3k → 15%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $3k → 15%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $3k → 15%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $2k → 15%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $500 → 15%YWCA OF PUEBLO: $500 → 15%SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATI: $1k → 15%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 19 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$209k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+25%

Still filing today

42%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PC
    Pueblo Community College Foundation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +155%
  • NA
    NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • SD
    SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS & CONFERENCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • PC
    PUEBLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • CF
    CSU-P FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • PL
    Pueblo Library Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +278%
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
Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo

The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.

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2
Pueblo Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc

To empower women and families in the greater pueblo colorado area with the educational, emotional and spiritual resources they need to choose life and thrive.

Health
3
Pueblo Symphony Association Inc

To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Foundation

To raise funds and acquire assets, both real and personal, that will provide financial assistance to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra.

Arts & Culture
5
Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation

Provides scholarships for higher education.

Education
6
Paso del Norte Community Foundation

PdNCF supports the philanthropic goals of individuals, families, corporations, foundations and nonprofit organizations to improve education, health, social services, economic development, and quality of life in the Paso del Norte region.

Health
7
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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8
Santa Fe Concert Foundation Dba Performance Santa Fe Foundation

To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe

Arts & Culture
9
Pueblo Primary Care Qalicb

To support pueblo community health center.

Health
10
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.

Philanthropy
11
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals
12
Colorado Plateau Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Parmer Scholar 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS CENTER: $32,000 · OtherSANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA CHILD CARE PROGRAM: $6,000 · OtherPUEBLO FAMILY YMCA: $4,500 · OtherPUEBLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherPOSADA: $4,400 · Other+12 more: $21,550 · Other+12 morePueblo Community College Foundation: $25,250 · EducationPueblo Community C…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNI…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER: $21,500 · EnvironmentNATURE AND…SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS & CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureCASA OF PUEBLO INC: $12,600 · Crime & LegalMariposa Center for Safety: $11,000 · Human ServicesSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $1,000 · Human ServicesPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8,500 · Animals
Other$114,450Education$36,250Environment$21,500Arts & Culture$17,000Crime & Legal$12,600Human Services$12,000Animals$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPueblo Community College Foundation: $25,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER: $21,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS & CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF PUEBLO INC: $12,600 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMariposa Center for Safety: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUEBLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPOSADA: $4,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPueblo Library Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS & CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF PUEBLO INC ↗
  • Who funds Mariposa Center for Safety ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PUEBLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POSADA ↗
  • Who funds Pueblo Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PARMER SCHOLAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Southern Colorado Com…Robert Hoag Rawlings …El Pomar FoundationCaring for Colorado C…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationPueblo Day Nursery Ch…Colorado Gives Founda…Jennie and Albert Ger…Garone-Nicksich Found…Ken & Gala White Fami…
Southern Colorado Community FoundatCO26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southern Colorado Community Foundat · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pueblo Day Nursery Children's Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jennie and Albert Gersick Foundation · Garone-Nicksich Foundation · Ken & Gala White 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 Ryals Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryals Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 28 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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