Minnesota · Private foundation
Ryan Memorial 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.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $522,688
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ryan Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $3.3M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $3.1M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $2.8M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.5M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $2.6M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $2.2M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $1.8M | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,175,408 | 8 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,759,614 | 9 | 0% |
| Extra Mile Education Foundation | $1,612,997 | 9 | 13% |
| Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy | $739,796 | 8 | 3% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $603,788 | 4 | 0% |
| Crossover Mission Inc | $600,626 | 5 | 11% |
| Pleasant Bay Community Boating Inc | $510,484 | 9 | 8% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh | $502,108 | 9 | 1% |
| Literacy Pittsburgh | $457,252 | 9 | 2% |
| Holy Family Institute | $403,979 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ryan Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Federated Investors Foundation Inc · The Heinz Endowments · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ryan Memorial Foundation
- How much does Ryan Memorial Foundation give?
- Ryan Memorial Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $3,840,706 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ryan Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), International (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Ryan Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Relief Services ($2.2M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($1.8M), Extra Mile Education Foundation ($1.6M).
- Does Ryan Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ryan Memorial 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 Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Grable Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Eqt Foundation.
- Where is Ryan Memorial Foundation based?
- Ryan Memorial Foundation is based in MN.
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