How much does C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation give?

C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $316,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 50 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (17%), Food & Nutrition (14%).

Who are C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: YMCA of Pulaski County ($44k), New River Valley Senior Services Inc ($43k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($40k).

Does C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc, Randolph House of Pulaski Found, New River Valley Health Foundation.

Where is C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation based?

C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation is based in VA.

C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation

C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$317k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$310kHuman Services$241kFood & Nutrition$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$195kArts & Culture$122kRecreation & Sports$88kHealth$75kYouth Development$73kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $162k
$10k–50k14 grants · $155k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
New River Comm Coll Ed Found	$25,000
Feeding Southwest Virginia	$10,000
Town of Dublin Volunteer Fire Department	$10,000
Dublin United Methodist Church	$10,000
Newbern Village Center Incorporated	$10,000
Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery Volunteers Inc	$10,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes	$10,000
YMCA of Pulaski County Inc	$10,000
New River Valley Senior Services Inc	$10,000
Pulaski Adult Day Service & Fall Prevention Center Inc	$10,000
American National Red Cross	$10,000
Jordans Chapel Feed My Lambs	$10,000
Emergency Needs Task Force of Pulaski County	$10,000
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc	$10,000
Childrens Assistive Technology Ser	$8,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 51 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

-22%

Still filing today

67%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

NR
NEW RIVER VALLEY SENIOR SERVICES INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +13%
FO
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +32%
NV
NEWBERN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +37%

Funded once

NR
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -32%
NR
New River Community College
one grant, 2021 · $25k
NR
New River Community College Educati
one grant, 2022 · $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.

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc

The purpose of the Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is to provide affordable and high quality medical, dental, behavioral, and preventive health care services to people of all ages and circumstances, regardless of…

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The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education

New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education

Central Virginia Community College Educational Foundationinc

To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment

Education

New Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc

Please see attached Schedule O.

Education

Philanthropy West Virginia Inc

Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.

Philanthropy

Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster

Fauquier Community Child Care Inc

Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.

Human Services

Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care Inc

To provide pastoral counseling which integrates wisdom from the faith traditions and the behavioral sciences; educational programs for ministers, congregations and community professionals as they provide competent, compassionate pastoral…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New River Valley Child Advocacy Resources Education & Services; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Pulaski Theatre Ltd. 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

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 105 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/47

Grantees still filing

23/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$889,792Human Services$195,974Education$137,055Youth Development$90,492Arts & Culture$61,400Food & Nutrition$30,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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.

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 Community Foundation of the New River Valley IncVA38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc · Randolph House of Pulaski Found · New River Valley Health Foundation · United Way of Southwest Virginia Inc · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Celanese Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Mem Uw Egj · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · Carilion New River Valley Medical Center · Lyerly 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 C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home