A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THOMAS M HELEN MCKEE & JOHN P RYAN FO JOHN P RYAN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 145 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $117k
$10k–50k94 grants · $2.2M
$50k–250k25 grants · $1.6M
$250k+4 grants · $2.9M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$123M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION	$2,000,000
ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION	$400,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY	$292,000
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME	$250,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY	$100,000
CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL	$100,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC	$100,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR	$100,000
TRINITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$100,000
RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL	$80,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH	$75,000
THE CLIBURN	$75,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS	$70,000
CAMP SUMMIT INC	$68,000
SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION	$60,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$43M · 226 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

226 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226

Total granted

$43M

$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+26%

Still filing today

73%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

TH
Texas Health Resources Foundation
3× · 2017–2019 · $2.5M · revenue +116%
AS
All Saints Health Foundation
5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +49%
TW
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
3× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +34%

Funded once

GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +114%
UG
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -23%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +89%

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.

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

Fort Worth Community Land Trust

The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…

Housing & Shelter

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.

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Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education

North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights

Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council and the most unlike its peers is Onesight Essilorluxottica Foundation Fund. 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.

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 34 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) — 1% 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 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/238

the rest of the field

17%

4,113/23,720

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.

05the grantee network

221 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. 221 of the 327 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

215/221

Grantees still filing

155/221

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$22,943,150Education$8,073,000Human Services$5,792,900Health$5,667,000Arts & Culture$2,285,000Youth Development$2,021,000Animals$1,410,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Sid W Richardson FoundationTX187.9× affinity94 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · The Morris Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · R4 Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · United Way of Tarrant County · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee

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 Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

56report 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, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines