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Ryan 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.

$96k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Ryan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$96k43%
FY202413$75k62%
FY20237$48k100%
FY20225$60k80%
FY20211$30kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$179kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$3kReligion$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$70,00020%
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc$30,00030%
Community in Crisis Inc$14,00031%
Nourishnj Inc$7,50030%
Mane Stream Inc$7,00031%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Willa's Wish Foundation Inc$5,000118%
End Overdose$4,70020%
Heartworks Inc$3,00021%
4QE Mentorship Foundation INC$2,5032n/a
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All grantees of Ryan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$70,00020%
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc$30,00030%
Community in Crisis Inc$14,00031%
Nourishnj Inc$7,50030%
Mane Stream Inc$7,00031%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Willa's Wish Foundation Inc$5,000118%
End Overdose$4,70020%
Heartworks Inc$3,00021%
4QE Mentorship Foundation INC$2,5032n/a
Morristown Meals on Wheels Inc$2,0001n/a
Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc$2,00010%
Beyond Type 1$1,0001n/a
Autism Speaks Inc$1,00010%
Life Camp Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ryan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDiabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity in Crisis Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNourishnj Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWilla's Wish Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEnd Overdose: $4,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeartworks Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJersey Battered Women's Service Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Camp Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Ryan Family Foundation

How much does Ryan Family Foundation give?
Ryan Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $96,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Ryan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Human Services (6%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
Who are Ryan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ($70k), Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc ($30k), Community in Crisis Inc ($14k).
Does Ryan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ryan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ryan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Ryan Family Foundation based?
Ryan Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 29 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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