· Private foundation
T Ragan Ryan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $5,000 |
| THE BUCKINGHAM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAN JACINTO MUSEUM AND BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FAMILY HOUSTON | $500 |
| YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +47%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +70%
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- PBPARADISE BOUND MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +62%
- NSNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIALone grant, 2023 · $500
- SJST JUDEone grant, 2022 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools and the most unlike its peers is Bella's Buddies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
- Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bella's Buddies Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISE BOUND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization T Ragan Ryan Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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