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The Ryan 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $754k
- $250k+10 grants · $51M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| filing | $45,900,000 |
| Catholic Bishop of Lincoln Inc | $1,500,000 |
| Society of Saint Vincent de Paul of Omaha | $800,000 |
| Catholic Archbishop of Omaha Inc | $715,000 |
| VJ and Angela Skutt Catholic High School | $600,000 |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $400,000 |
| Lourdes Central Catholic School | $370,000 |
| Father Flanagan' Boys Home dba Boys Town National Research Hospital | $320,573 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $294,000 |
| Duchesne College & Convent | $268,483 |
| Essential Pregnancy Services | $224,000 |
| Conception Abbey Inc | $209,363 |
| American Province of the Servants of Mary | $195,225 |
| Archdiocese of Omaha DBA Music in Catholic Schools | $75,000 |
| New Visions Homeless Services | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $274k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52M 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
- UUunmc - university of nebraska fdtn3× · 2017–2019 · $1.9M
- CACONCEPTION ABBEY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $405k
- CPCharitable Pass-Thru Streck Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $354k
Funded once
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home d/b/a Boys Town National Research Hospitalone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- NCNEW CASSEL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
- SRSt. Robert Bellarmine Churchone grant, 2020 · $500k
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.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
The organization's mission is to minimize disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior-quality, patient-centered healthcare through an integrated delivery system for underserved and vulnerable multi-ethnic…
To improve the life of every child - through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Through acquisition and wise stewardship of assets, the Northwest Medical Center Foundation will ensure that quality medical services are a hallmark of the Northwest Medical Center service area. The Foundation will support the facility and…
The foundation is established to support the covenant healthcare system by accepting donations and providing stewardship of charitable funds received from the covenant healthcare constituency.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, mercy medical center - newton and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy medical center - newton is a member of trinity health.
To improve the behavioral health of citizens in the region by providing a comprehensive community behavioral health program in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connected Roots Care Center and the most unlike its peers is New Visions Homeless Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 44 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 NEW CASSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNEMed ↗
- Who funds EPS ESSENTIAL PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Corning Comm Sch Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Visions Homeless Services ↗
- Who funds VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mutual of Omaha Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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