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The Ryan Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Ryan Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Ryan Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $51k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k41 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Southern California | $10,000 |
| The National Theatre Corporatiom | $8,250 |
| The Georgetown Baptist Church | $5,000 |
| Blair House Restoration Fund | $4,250 |
| National Association for Olmsted Pa | $2,500 |
| University of Michigan | $2,500 |
| St Andrew's Episcopal School | $2,000 |
| Georgetown Visitation Preparatory S | $1,500 |
| Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Dept | $1,000 |
| Joey's Foundation | $1,000 |
| The Lab School of Washington | $1,000 |
| Vassar College | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Amer Univ of Afghani | $1,000 |
| BroadFutures Inc | $1,000 |
| Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washi | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +68%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +44%- BHBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $15k · revenue ×17
Funded once
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +31%- GFGerogetown Fundone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CACitizens Association of Georgetownone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -84%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
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,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
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.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 81 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BROADFUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds OLMSTED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF HEALING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Citizens Association of Georgetown ↗
- Who funds CABIN JOHN PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KNOCK OUT ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Georgetown Heritage ↗
- Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Alisann and Terry Collins Foundation · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc · The Shiloh Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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