· Public charity
The Ryan Foundation Inc
The primary activity of the foundation is the making of grants to qualifying individuals and to other charitable, religious, and education organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the code.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $905,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,363,771 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $458,104 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $397k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC | $250,000 |
| CISDR | $196,667 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY | $100,000 |
| EDUCATION IS FREEDOM | $50,000 |
| VEF-BENEFIT FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| PROJECT DESTINED | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLAS | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF GEORGIA | $16,500 |
| SHAQUILLE ONEAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NUSTAR FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC7× · 2017–2023 · $493k · revenue +131%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $230k · revenue +33%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +36%
- CDCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +119%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +38%
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.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands for Single Moms and the most unlike its peers is Gene & Jerry Jones Family 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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 76 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds VALUES ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLAS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nustar Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELICOPTERS FOR HEROES ↗
- Who funds TREC SPECIAL EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DESTINED INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds UNTHSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Perot Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Inc 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.