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THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC

THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,800 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($517,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$713k
Net assets
$98k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What The Ryan Foundation Inc does

Mission

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.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The foundation provides support to other 501(c)(3) organizations that focus on health, education, poverty, and distress.

    $1,399,382 spentof which $1,397,848 as grants
    95% of program spending
  2. The foundation provides a disaster relief and emergency hardship grant program that primarily focuses on the group of persons consisting of employees of ryan, llc (or an affiliate of ryan, llc) and their family members.

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,469,382.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($526k) Net assets -237 ($-1609333)2018 Revenue 170 ($292k) Expenses 130 ($685k) Net assets -295 ($-2001963)2019 Revenue 437 ($750k) Expenses 120 ($630k) Net assets -277 ($-1881649)2020 Revenue 481 ($826k) Expenses 80 ($418k) Net assets -217 ($-1473663)2021 Revenue 1848 ($3.2M) Expenses 141 ($741k) Net assets 100 ($679k)2022 Revenue 694 ($1.2M) Expenses 273 ($1.4M) Net assets 65 ($438k)2023 Revenue 747 ($1.3M) Expenses 269 ($1.4M) Net assets 46 ($309k)2024 Revenue 782 ($1.3M) Expenses 295 ($1.6M) Net assets 14 ($98k)
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Revenue (782)Expenses (295)Net assets (14)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $335k to $743k (+122%).

$66k
$214k
$335k
$743k
$679k
$438k
$309k
$98k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$354k
’17
−$393k
’18
$120k
’19
$408k
’20
$2.4M
’21
−$241k
’22
−$129k
’23
−$211k
’24
0.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Amy Kendrick Lee

Executive director

Board chair

G Brint Ryan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed3331212121115
Joined·+0+0+9+2+1+0+4
No longer listed·0002110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $317k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC.

73%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

78% of THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $155k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Texas funders.

MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $558k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

25%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Ryan LLC · partnership
  • Ryan Investment Holdings I Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC?
THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,800 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($517,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $712,800 in grants to THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC?
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $517,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE RYAN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing