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The Ryrie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$803k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$33,160
Largest grant, FY2024
$166,210
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$7.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Ryrie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$803k15%
FY202319$777k32%
FY202221$666k38%
FY202118$562k33%
FY202017$541kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.6MReligion$1.6MCivil Rights$95kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MI
NY
OR
IN
CO
WV
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Total Life Management$734,680597%
Appalachian Bible College Inc$552,50052%
Word of Life Fellowship Inc$213,98630%
Twelfth Step Ministry Inc$200,00033%
Pacific Island University$165,0003n/a
Entrust$162,00052%
The Center for Mission Mobilization$95,0004n/a
Lakehill Preparatory School$50,00020%
National Theological College and Graduate School$25,000119%
Life Line Ministries Incorporated$20,0003n/a
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Ryrie Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Total Life Management$734,680597%
Appalachian Bible College Inc$552,50052%
Word of Life Fellowship Inc$213,98630%
Twelfth Step Ministry Inc$200,00033%
Pacific Island University$165,0003n/a
Entrust$162,00052%
The Center for Mission Mobilization$95,0004n/a
Lakehill Preparatory School$50,00020%
National Theological College and Graduate School$25,000119%
Life Line Ministries Incorporated$20,0003n/a
Imago Dei Ministries$20,0002n/a
Equipping Leaders International Inc$15,00030%
Grace Prison Ministries Inc$10,00023%
Foster College$3,00010%

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Ryrie Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTotal Life Management: $734,680 over 5y, 97% of budgetAppalachian Bible College Inc: $552,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWord of Life Fellowship Inc: $213,986 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTwelfth Step Ministry Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetEntrust: $162,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLakehill Preparatory School: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Theological College and Graduate School: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEquipping Leaders International Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Prison Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFoster College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Ryrie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ryrie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Ryrie Foundation

How much does The Ryrie Foundation give?
The Ryrie Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $803,177 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Ryrie Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Religion (47%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are The Ryrie Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Total Life Management ($735k), Appalachian Bible College Inc ($553k), Word of Life Fellowship Inc ($214k).
Does The Ryrie Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ryrie Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ryrie Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Ryrie Foundation based?
The Ryrie Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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