· Private foundation
T Ragan Ryan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| WAYLAND ACADEMY | $500 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT | $500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- SJST JUDEone grant, 2022 · $500
- NSNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIALone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 64 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- 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 Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds PARADISE BOUND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization T Ragan Ryan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T Ragan Ryan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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