· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
| YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEARNING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| SAINT EDWARDS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK | $6,250 |
| QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES | $5,375 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
| PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEW JERSEY SYMPOHNY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| GLASS ROOTS INC | $2,500 |
| IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
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, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +44%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +5%
- TDTHE DORIS A HOWELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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…
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 167 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 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 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ryan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ryan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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