· Private foundation
The Ryan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schwab Charitable Fund - DAF Account 7454 | $92,723,638 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund - DAF Account 2852 | $27,125,973 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund - DAF Account 2484 | $3,822,362 |
| Catholic Bishop of Lincoln Inc | $1,500,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCATHOLIC BISHOP OF LINCOLN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3.0M
- UUunmc - university of nebraska fdtn3× · 2017–2019 · $1.9M
- COCurators of the University of Missouri2× · 2020–2024 · $588k
Funded once
- CSCharles Schwab Donor Advised Fundone grant, 2024 · $46M
- 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%
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.
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…
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
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.
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…
Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…
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.
The catholic health care system ("chcs or the "system") is a health care delivery system composed of hospitals, nursing homes, managed care plans and other entities that deliver and provide for the delivery of health care services (the…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 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 NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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