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Ryan's Quest Inc

The mission of ryan's quest is to increase awareness of duchenne muscular dystrophy with the purpose of allocating funds for research that can accelerate a treatment for this disease.

$100k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$704kScience & Tech$67kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY$100,000
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 (FY20–23, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $100k → 14%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $25k → 7%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$344k · 4 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$344k
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+91%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TP
    THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +26%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +11% · 27% of their budget
  • JF
    JETT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +359%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHARLEY'S FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $147k · revenue -71%
  • EE
    Emmes Endpoint Solutions LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • SR
    SUNEEL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue -44%
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
The Nash Avery Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Cure Duchenne

Cure duchenne is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds; coordinating and funding research necessary to find a cure for duchenne muscular dystrophy, increasing public awareness for duchenne muscular dystrophy patients,…

Health
3
Cure Cmd

Cure CMDs mission is to advance research toward treatments for the congenital muscular dystrophies and empower those living with CMD through engagement and support of our community.

Health
4
Team Joseph Inc

Our primary mission includes funding research to find a cure or treatment for duchenne muscular dystrophy. we are committed to saving this generation of children. when we work smart, leverage each dollar and work in close partnership with…

Human Services
5
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne Inc

The organization's mission is to provide research grants to fund aggressive research into treatments for duchenne muscular dystrophy and to support the effort to treat, and ultimately cure, this disease.

Health
6
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc

Muscular dystrophy association (mda) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the united states for people living with muscular dystrophy, als, and related neuromuscular diseases. (cont. schedule o) for over 70 years, mda has led the way…

Health
7
Destroy Duchenne

Destroy duchennes mission is to complete the cure for duchenne muscular dystrophy by advancing gene-editing and gene therapy technologies, the future of medicine, into human practice.

Health
8
Austins Hope

Mission statement: our mission is to bring hope to those impacted by duchenne muscular dystrophy. we fund dmd research and strive to enhance the quality of life for those impacted by duchenne.

Health
9
Cure ADSSL1

To find cure for adssl1 and offer hope and provide a brighter future to children affected with adenylosuccinate lyase (adsl) deficiency

Health
10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
11
The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation

The myelodysplastic syndromes foundation (mdsf) is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting patients and caregivers affected by myelodysplastic syndromes (mds), a group of rare and life-threatening bone marrow disorders, and…

Health
12
Jb's Keys to Dmd Inc

Jbs keys is dedicated to increasing awareness of duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) while appropriating funds for quality of life, care, and research; ensuring affected children will have better opportunities during their lifetime.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michael's Cause Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Emmes Endpoint Solutions LLC: $125,000 · OtherEmmes Endpoint Solutions LLCIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $102,859 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $66,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $147,333 · HealthCHARLEY'S FUND INCChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporati…CURE RARE DISEASE INC: $25,000 · HealthCURE RARE DISEASE INCJETT FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · HealthTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT PROJ…THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $105,370 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…SUNEEL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $90,350 · PhilanthropySUNEEL RESE…
Other$342,026Health$233,333Human Services$125,000Education$105,370Philanthropy$90,350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $147,333 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $105,370 over 2y, 27% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE RARE DISEASE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ryan's Quest Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryan's Quest Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $111k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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