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Ryland Family Charitable Fund at a glance

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Ryland Family Charitable Fund

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$33kReligion$13kEmployment$6kHealth$4kEducation$2kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Haiti Education Foundation$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
REACH for Uganda$2,000
World Central Kilchen$2,000
Congregational Church of Needham$2,000
Save the Children$1,000
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Floyd Friends of Asylum Seekers: $2k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Ryland Family Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ryland Family Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 6 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$51k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • RF
    REACH FOR UGANDAINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +266%
  • HE
    HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • TI
    THE IVY CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • FF
    FLOYD FRIENDS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Building Schools in Africa
Education
2
Worldwide Friends of Ugandan Orphans Inc
Human Services
3
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
4
World Aid Runners
Health
5
International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc
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6
World Forgotten Children Foundation
Philanthropy
7
World Education Fund
Education
8
Invisible Light Foundation
International
9
Strides for Africa Inc

Exposed to the water crisis in rural Africa during the adoption of a child, we initiate action through educational outreach and events that fund sustainable clean water sources or projects providing educational/health benefits for rural…

Public Benefit
10
Floyd Future
Community Improvement
11
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

—
12
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Floyd Friends of Asylum Seekers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $12,625 · OtherCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAMIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWorld Central Kilchen: $2,000 · OtherWorld Central KilchenHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · InternationalHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCThe Pad Project: $3,500 · InternationalThe Pad ProjectPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncREACH FOR UGANDAINC: $12,625 · PhilanthropyREACH FOR UGANDAINCWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $5,625 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD BICY…THE IVY CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC: $2,000 · EducationFLOYD FRIENDS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$20,625International$18,500Philanthropy$12,625Public Safety & Disaster$5,625Education$2,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREACH FOR UGANDAINC: $12,625 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $5,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pad Project: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Ryland Family Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryland Family Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 11 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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