· Private foundation
Ryan Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLNIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF WADSWORTH | $22,000 |
| RYAN FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $15,700 |
| SACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH | $12,500 |
| SAN MARCO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,500 |
| BGSU FOUNDATION INC | $12,300 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CALEB ANDREW LONGFIELD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BGSU FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBowling Green State University Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $558k · revenue +39%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +83%- FMFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART PARISHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- WSWADSWORTH SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2019 · $12k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
Support of miami university
Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See schedule oohio wesleyan's charter provides that "the university is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations, and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general." in the…
Manchester University respects the infinite worth of every individual and graduates persons of ability and conviction who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives that improve the human…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 74 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 Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARIANS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLER MCNEIL WOODRUFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ryan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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