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The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family 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.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$424k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$830kHealth$367kScience & Tech$279kReligion$182kArts & Culture$89kEnvironment$84kYouth Development$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$424,012
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHEDULE$424,012
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARM IN ARM: $2k → 11%Canine Partners For Life: $500 → 6%ARM IN ARM: $800 → 11%ARM IN ARM: $500 → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $1k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $1k → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $500 → 22%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $500 → 22%SHARE MY MEALS: $5k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES: $4k → 11%FRENITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES: $3k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICES: $2k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 64 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
71

Total granted

$3.0M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+16%

Still filing today

48%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $504k · revenue +50%
  • TD
    THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $258k · revenue +505%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $148k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $41k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • ST
    St Thomas Moore Church
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
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 Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stone Harbor Rescue Squad Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 136 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
39/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHEDULE: $798,751 · OtherTHE RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHEDULELEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $142,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORKLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $114,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORKST THOMAS MORE: $88,500 · OtherST KATHERINE OF SIENA SCHOOL: $70,000 · Other+102 more: $561,824 · Other+102 moreVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $504,300 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $227,965 · EducationTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $148,194 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYDESALES UNIVERSITY: $76,000 · EducationDESALES UNIVERSITY+6 more: $40,000 · EducationTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $258,425 · Arts & CultureTHE DA VIN…HISTORIC MORVEN INC: $26,850 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC M…MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $10,600 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $14,510 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $62,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $53,800 · Environment+2 more: $1,750 · EnvironmentCENTER AT 353 INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesSHARE MY MEALS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesARM IN ARM INC: $3,300 · Human ServicesSecond Harvest: $2,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1,500 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Science & Tech
Other$1,775,075Education$996,459Arts & Culture$310,385Youth Development$63,600Environment$55,550Human Services$25,800Science & Tech$20,500

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 budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $504,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $258,425 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $227,965 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $148,194 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $114,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $76,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $62,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $53,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $26,850 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $10,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: $10,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE MY MEALS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUND TO BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $4,750 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTONE HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION: $1,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL FOOD BANK SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 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.

  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
  • Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS ↗

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.

Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Harry C Trexler EstateAir Products Foundati…The Century Fund TrustPrinceton Area Commun…Ppl FoundationButz FoundationRoss J Born and Wendy…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Curtis W McGraw Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA34.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Harry C Trexler Estate · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Butz Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Chubb Charitable 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 The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School: 4% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 136 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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