· Private foundation
The Ryrie Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $478k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOTAL LIFE MANAGEMENT | $166,210 |
| APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| PACIFIC ISLANDS UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $51,412 |
| ENTRUST | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,497 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,755 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,160 |
| LEGACY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| VIA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,553 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,549 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABAPPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $553k · revenue +38%
- WOWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC3× · 2020–2022 · $214k · revenue +19%
- TSTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TLTOTAL LIFE MANAGEMENTone grant, 2022 · $88k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $32k
- NTNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +97%
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.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Train and educate the whole people of god for the fullfillment of the great commission through excellent and affordable distance education. stimulate the growth of spiritual stem cells that become the mature disciples and bible-centered…
Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 40 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 TOTAL LIFE MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Island University ↗
- Who funds ENTRUST ↗
- Who funds LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Equipping Leaders International Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE PRISON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Foster College ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ryrie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ryrie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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