· 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.
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 $10k22 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $522,688 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $408,350 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $272,213 |
| EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $240,188 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $203,359 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH | $176,138 |
| PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY | $152,919 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WEST PA | $128,100 |
| FOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHED | $103,229 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JT DISP COMMITTEE | $102,480 |
| BAAM | $102,480 |
| HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE | $102,422 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $102,088 |
| DIOCESE OF GREENSBURG | $93,548 |
| CROSSOVER MISSION | $82,464 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
92 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +98%- EMEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $740k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NPNAZARETH PREPone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -37%
- TTHORNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +26%
- PBPALM BEACH CO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $41k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 161 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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds Girls Rock Rochester INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ryan Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryan Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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