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Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06 at a glance

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Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$306k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$842kArts & Culture$644kEducation$400kInternational$225kHealth$152kReligion$88kHuman Services$62kYouth Development$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$4,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC$150,000
BIRDSNEST FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUTH INC$30,000
ROBINHOOD FOUNDATION$7,025
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$4,550
USTA FOUNDATION$2,500
THE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION BENEFIT$1,900
THE SBT CHARITABLE FUND$1,800
NORA'S GIFT FOUNDATION$1,500
MEMORIAL SLOAK KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,200
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$650
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+1%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $725k · revenue +39%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +34%
  • TP
    THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue -51%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BE
    BOOMER ESIASION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $725,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF…+3 more: $27,513 · PhilanthropyBIRDS NEST FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureBIRDS NEST FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $30,200 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $85,700 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEHELP USA: $80,000 · OtherHELP USAWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $75,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICI…SUNDRY ORGANIZED CHARITIES: $74,265 · OtherSUNDRY ORGANIZED CHA…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…BOOMER ESIASION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherBOOMER ESIASION FOUN…JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME: $15,000 · OtherTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $41,446 · Other+12 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $140,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalR BABY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · HealthBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$752,513Arts & Culture$630,200Other$441,411Education$400,000International$145,000Health$61,000Youth Development$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $725,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRDS NEST FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetR BABY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $14,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFANS FOR THE CURE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $4,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $2,988 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06?

    Find your warmest path to Bruce and Avis Richards Family Foundation Dated 12/13/06 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.

    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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