· Private foundation
The Irene Ryan Foundation Barbara McLean Managing Director
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rare Bird Theatre | $10,000 |
| Theatre For All | $10,000 |
| Raleigh Little Theatre | $10,000 |
| Perkins Academy for the Blind | $10,000 |
| Art Access Inc | $5,000 |
| Special Need Art Program | $5,000 |
| Positive Action Community Theatre | $5,000 |
| Cape Symphony Cape Arts & Entertainment | $5,000 |
| Special Stars Performing Arts | $5,000 |
| Rehabilitation Thru Arts | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% 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
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.
Art For All provides inclusive arts theater wellness and community programs for people with disabilities We support artistic expression community participation skill-building and belonging through classes performances exhibitions art sales…
Arts Access, we provide free community art classes for senior adults and adults with disabilities. We provide free accessible live theatre productions for our local community. We are building a resource of information to help other…
SPARC profoundly influences the lives of young people through exceptional performing arts education. It is SPARC's vision to inspire the confidence, creativity, and character of every young person in the country.
The River Performing and Arts Center (the River) provides accessible, affordable fine arts education for children and youth between the ages of 2-19 who have disabilities, chronic illnesses, or economic disadvantages.
Vocational Programs centered around the arts for people on the autism spectrum ASD
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
The center provides to young people. including those with disabilities, instructions in dance, drama, jazz, voice, and other theater arts. the instruction includes a classroom setting and the production and participation in staged…
Open Door Theater of Acton is a non-profit, accessible community theater company that has been creating learning experiences through theater for adults and children with and without disabilities since it was founded in 1980. The Open Door…
We are a performing arts based group offering live theater opportunities to our local communities.
Charitable and Educational. Non-Profit Theatre Company inculcating in the general public a greater appreciation of the dramatic and performing arts.
Harmony Theater was established to established to provide production services for developmentally, emotionally disabled adults so that they may participate in performing arts activities as an avenue for social interaction and self…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 45 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 RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNDOG THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre For All Inc ↗
- Who funds RARE BIRD ↗
- Who funds ARTS ACCESS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds Positive Action Community Theatre (PACT) ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS ARTS PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Irene Ryan Foundation Barbara McLean Managing Director funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irene Ryan Foundation Barbara McLean Managing Director. Bigger dots raise more.
- Special Needs Arts Programs Inc: 4% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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