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The Rydin Foundation
THE RYDIN FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO HONOR DR.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $767k
- $250k+3 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $3,500,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $1,851,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN MOMENT INC | $200,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $167,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| FAIR ELECTIONS FUND | $100,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON BALLET | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Conservative Partnership Institute3× · 2022–2024 · $10M · revenue -5% · 26% of their budget- AFAmerica First Legal Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +231%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $334k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $375k · revenue 0%
- AAAMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
- AMAmerican Moment Incone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
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.
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.
Our mission is to conduct and support research on issues and trends that affect the practice of public affairs and organizations' ability to thrive in a dynamic business environment. Our research provides actionable intelligence on…
It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
The American-German Institute is a center for policy research and scholarship dedicated to the most important political, economic, and security issues confronting Germany and the United States in the global arena. AGI anticipates…
American Principles Project Foundation was created to promote the dignity of the human person and the importance of the family in protecting human dignity. We educate the public about problems facing families and what policy solutions can…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America First Policy Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Houston Grand Opera Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association 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: Conservative Partnership Institute · Donors Trust Inc · Servant Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Rydin 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.