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Ryerson 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Georgia | $4,000 |
| Middle Georgia State University | $4,000 |
| University of Central Arkansas | $4,000 |
| Georgia State University | $2,000 |
| San Antonio College | $2,000 |
| Clemson University | $2,000 |
| M State Moorhead Campus | $2,000 |
| Georgia Gwinnett College | $2,000 |
| Rockhurst University | $2,000 |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | $2,000 |
| McHenry County College | $2,000 |
| Denison University | $2,000 |
| Michigan State University | $2,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | $2,000 |
| Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Campus Tijuana | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its 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.
60 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 23 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +11%
- WCWilmington College4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +23%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FMFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -5%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +8%
- UOUniversity of Ottowaone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
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…
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…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 168 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 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds Benedictine University ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds Bluffton University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Ge Aerospace Foundation · John Q Shunk Association · Culver's Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ryerson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryerson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Goldey-Beacom College: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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