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The Ryan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k67 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $397k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMANCE ARTS | $191,701 |
| BRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE | $55,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LEARNING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAINT EDWARDS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK | $6,250 |
| QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES | $5,375 |
| DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $5,000 |
| PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEW JERSEY SYMPOHNY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
| GLASS ROOTS INC | $2,500 |
| IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 5 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2020–2024 · $505k · revenue ×23 · 36% of their budget
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +27%
- SESAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CVCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +38%
- TDTHE DORIS A HOWELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sandridge Foundation. 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 50 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 167 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GLASSROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds IT HAPPENED TO ALEXA FOUNDATION 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: The McJ Amelior Foundation · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Turrell Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · Arthur M Goldberg and Veronica Goldberg Foundation Inc · Lipper Family Charitable Foundation · Colton Family Foundation · The Kahle Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995
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 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
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Vermont Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.
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