BORN FROM LOVE. CREATED WITH PURPOSE.
Aryanna was smart, creative, intentional, compassionate, and truly one of a kind. She loved photography, poetry, music, beauty and skincare, animals, especially cats, and the people closest to her. She dreamed of publishing her poetry and attending esthetician school. Aryanna’s life ended far too soon, but her story is so much more than how it ended.
The Aryanna Frye Foundation was created to honor the whole person she was, the dreams she carried, the things she loved, and the kindness and creativity she brought into the lives of others.
As a charitable nonprofit organization, our mission is to transform Aryanna’s legacy into meaningful support and opportunities for others through programs that promote mental health, education, creativity, compassion, and hope.
Our hope is that Aryanna’s life will continue to make a difference by helping someone receive support, pursue a dream, discover their creativity, feel less alone, or simply find a reason to keep going.
Her dreams may have ended too soon. Her legacy doesn’t have to.
Celebrating the life. Inspiring the dreams. Creating Hope.
The Aryanna Frye Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in loving memory of Aryanna Frye, a beautiful, creative, deeply empathetic young woman whose life continues to inspire a greater purpose.
Through mental health support, suicide prevention and awareness, educational opportunities, creative programs, and acts of compassion, we are working to turn unimaginable loss into hope for others.
Hope. Creativity. Strength.
The Aryanna Frye Foundation is organized and operated for charitable and educational purposes and exists to create hope, encourage creativity, and strengthen lives.
Our work is centered around mental health awareness and suicide prevention while also creating opportunities inspired by Aryanna’s own dreams, talents, compassion, and interests.
Through our charitable programs, we seek to support eligible individuals and families, open doors for young people, encourage creative expression, preserve Aryanna’s words and artwork, promote awareness, and build a legacy rooted in kindness and hope.
GET HELP • PURSUE A DREAM • CREATE
The Aryanna Hope Fund
Helping make mental health support more accessible.
The Aryanna Hope Fund is a charitable assistance program designed to help eligible individuals and families access qualifying mental health services when financial barriers might otherwise stand in the way.
Assistance is provided in accordance with the Foundation’s charitable mission, program guidelines, eligibility requirements, available funding, and applicable policies.
Our goal is simple: to help make sure financial hardship does not prevent someone from seeking the mental health support they need.
The Aryanna Dream Scholarship
Helping young people pursue the dreams that matter to them.
The Aryanna Dream Scholarship provides charitable educational assistance to eligible young people ages 16–25 pursuing educational, vocational, certification, creative, and career opportunities.
Inspired by Aryanna’s own dreams of publishing her poetry and attending esthetician school, the scholarship may support qualifying pursuits such as writing, photography, art, music, esthetics, cosmetology, skincare, beauty, vocational training, certifications, and other educational or creative goals consistent with the Foundation’s charitable and educational mission.
Scholarships are awarded according to established eligibility requirements, application procedures, selection criteria, available funding, and Foundation policies.
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The Aryanna Creative Fund
Because creativity can give someone a voice, a purpose, and a place to belong.
The Aryanna Creative Fund supports qualifying creative and educational opportunities consistent with the Foundation’s charitable mission.
Support may include eligible projects, supplies, education, photography equipment, writing and publishing expenses, workshops, training, and other approved creative pursuits.
The program reflects Aryanna’s creative spirit and our belief that creativity can provide connection, expression, confidence, purpose, and hope.
Awards and assistance are subject to program eligibility requirements, Foundation policies, available funding, and applicable charitable guidelines.
Aryanna’s Words
Her words. Her photographs. Her story. Her legacy.
Aryanna dreamed of publishing her poetry.
Through Aryanna’s Words, the Foundation will preserve and share her poetry, photography, creativity, memories, and pieces of the person she was.
This project gives Aryanna the opportunity to become the published writer she dreamed of being while allowing her words to continue reaching people she never had the chance to meet.
Where applicable, proceeds received by the Foundation in connection with Aryanna’s Words may be used to further the Foundation’s charitable and educational mission and programs.
LIVE4ARY
Aryanna’s memory reminds us that mental health deserves honest conversation, compassion, and attention.
Check on the people you love.
Reach out when someone becomes quiet.
Listen without judgment.
Talk openly about mental health.
Choose kindness, even when you don’t know what someone else is carrying.
And remind people that asking for help is a sign that they are still fighting.
LIVE4ARY is more than remembering Aryanna.
It is choosing to carry something good forward in her name.
It is raising awareness, encouraging conversation, supporting others, and helping create a world where people know that their lives have value.
Because every life matters.
HELP US CARRY HER LIGHT FORWARD. YOUR GIFT CAN CREATE HOPE.
The Aryanna Frye Foundation began with a mother’s love for her daughter and a determination that Aryanna’s life, dreams, creativity, and compassion would continue to mean something in this world.
Today, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the Foundation carries that love forward through charitable programs created to provide hope, opportunity, support, and encouragement to others.
Every person we help becomes part of that legacy.
Every dream we help someone pursue carries a little of Aryanna’s spirit forward.
Every honest conversation about mental health can help someone feel less alone.
And every act of kindness has the possibility of reaching someone at exactly the moment they need it.
Your support helps The Aryanna Frye Foundation further its charitable and educational mission and sustain programs designed to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
Whether you make a charitable contribution, volunteer, share our mission, participate in a Foundation initiative, or simply check on someone you love, you can be part of what comes next.
Donations support the Foundation’s charitable and educational mission, programs, operations, and initiatives. The Foundation maintains discretion and control over contributed funds consistent with its charitable purposes and applicable law.
Every gift helps Aryanna’s light continue reaching others.
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARYANNA KAELYN RENEE FRYE
December 12, 2001 - September 11, 2026
Hope. Creativity. Strength.
IMPORTANT MENTAL HEALTH / CRISIS NOTICE
The Aryanna Frye Foundation provides charitable programs, education, awareness, resources, and financial assistance consistent with its mission. The Foundation is not a healthcare provider, mental health treatment provider, crisis response service, or emergency service, and information provided through this website is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911 or your local emergency services.
If you are experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis in the United States, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
