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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$1.3MHealth$620kHuman Services$290kPhilanthropy$282kCommunity Improvement$254kYouth Development$240kHousing & Shelter$234kFood & Nutrition$219kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

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
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%GNC LIVE WELL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE CARING FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $10k → 5%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $15k → 4%SOLES4SOULS: $20k → 14%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $25k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS-DALLAS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HELICOPTERS FOR HEROES: $20k → 14%HELICOPTERS FOR HEROES: $20k → 14%SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CO
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 30 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
37

Total granted

$2.6M
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $493k · revenue +131%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $230k · revenue +33%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • CD
    CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +119%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
2
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
3
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

4
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
5
Trellis Foundation

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…

Human Services
6
The Leadership Foundation

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…

7
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

9
Forty First Foundation

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…

Education
10
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
11
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
12
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

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.

Education

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%36%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,728

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
47/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $493,334 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS R…FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC — $250,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INCHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $250,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AM…HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLAS — $90,000 · EducationHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLASEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $44,548 · Education+6 more — $115,500 · Education+6 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $220,274 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY…NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $218,570 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $163,271 · OtherDallas Area Habitat for Humanity In…Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc — $129,900 · OtherRonald McDonald House of Dallas IncVALUES ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherVALUES ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $50,000 · OtherNustar Foundation — $45,585 · OtherCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $50,450 · Other+14 more — $230,452 · Other+14 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $230,194 · HealthAmerican Hear…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $98,593 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $56,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …THE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND — $20,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Health+3 more — $35,000 · Health+3 moreJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC — $185,000 · Community ImprovementTREC SPECIAL EVENTS INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCORPORATE VOLUNTEER COUNCIL OF ATLANTA — $12,000 · Community ImprovementVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION — $92,000 · PhilanthropyGENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyPOPULAR FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFEDEX PILOTS CHARITABLE FUND — $10,000 · Philanthropy22KILL — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COVIA FOUNDATION — $9,800 · Philanthropy+5 more — $29,984 · PhilanthropyHELICOPTERS FOR HEROES — $40,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARD — $25,000 · Human ServicesSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE — $20,000 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSM Wright Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesGNC LIVE WELL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCaring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC — $58,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $11,585 · Recreation & SportsWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,293,382Other$1,208,502Health$459,787Community Improvement$272,000Philanthropy$261,784Human Services$200,000Recreation & Sports$124,585

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $493,334 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $230,194 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $220,274 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $218,570 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC — $185,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $163,271 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc — $129,900 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVALUES ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $98,593 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION — $92,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLAS — $90,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC — $58,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $56,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $50,450 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNustar Foundation — $45,585 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $44,548 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHELICOPTERS FOR HEROES — $40,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTREC SPECIAL EVENTS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS — $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT DESTINED INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD INC — $25,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNTHSC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBI-LO Holdings Foundation Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORPORATE VOLUNTEER COUNCIL OF ATLANTA — $12,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $11,585 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX33.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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