· Private foundation
The Jack and Tricia Ryan Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| THE ROB PURSLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NAMBALE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FULL COURT PEACE | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $3,000 |
| MINDS MATTER | $2,500 |
| SEND IT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Elon University7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +42%
Cornell University7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +59%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- FOFRIENDS OF NAMBALE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -33% · 28% of their budget
BUILDON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +39%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Apollo Pact 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 61 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 Elon University ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds FULL COURT PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NAMBALE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds SEND IT ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMBALE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ELENAS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Fire Department Incorporated ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · Bassler Family Foundation Inc · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Jack and Tricia Ryan Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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.