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Jobe and Helen Richards Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Philanthropy$86kFood & Nutrition$84kHealth$74kReligion$74kEducation$66kHousing & Shelter$33kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF FORT WORTH$16,667
JEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH &$11,500
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER$5,000
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$5,000
BETH-EL CONGREGATION$5,000
MAYFEST INC$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$4,000
COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$4,000
JEWEL CHARITY BALL INC$3,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC$3,000
DAY RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF N TEXAS$2,000
JOAN KATZ CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION$2,000
JEWISH EDUCATION AGENCY$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $4k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%PROJECT 4031 INC: $600 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$506k · 26 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

$506k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-10%

Still filing today

46%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +90%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center
    7× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS SISTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • UH
    UNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

1
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
5
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

6
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
8
The University of Texas Law School Foundation

The mission of the Law School Foundation is the development, management, and enhancement of the financial and administrative resources which support the University of Texas School of Law.

Education
9
Texas a&M Foundation

The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
12
State Fair of Texas

The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF FT WORTH TARRA — $63,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF FT WORTH TARRATarrant Area Food Bank — $55,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankDAY RESOURCE CENTER — $30,000 · OtherDAY RESOURCE CENTERJEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH & — $23,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH &JOAN KATZ CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $17,000 · OtherJOAN KATZ CANCER RESOURCE CENTERCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF FORT WORTH — $16,667 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF FORT WORTHBETH-EL CONGREGATION-SYLVIA WOLENS — $16,000 · OtherBETH-EL CONGREGATION — $13,000 · OtherB'NAI B'RITH ISADORE GARSEK LODGE — $11,500 · Other+16 more — $58,100 · Other+16 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTI…The Jewish Education Agency — $14,500 · EducationThe Jewish Ed…Cook Children's Medical Center — $34,000 · HealthCook Child…JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED — $16,000 · HealthJEWEL CHAR…THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterMEALS ON WHEELS — $29,000 · Human Services+1 more — $600 · Human ServicesTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC — $29,000 · Community ImprovementMAYFEST INC (DBA TRINITY COLLABORATIVE INC) — $18,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$303,267Education$64,500Health$50,000Housing & Shelter$32,500Human Services$29,600Community Improvement$29,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC — $29,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $29,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetMAYFEST INC (DBA TRINITY COLLABORATIVE INC) — $18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jewish Education Agency — $14,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINSIGHT PRISON PROJECT — $8,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH ABROAD — $1,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetPROJECT 4031 INC — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center
  • Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds MAYFEST INC (DBA TRINITY COLLABORATIVE INC)
  • Who funds JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds The Jewish Education Agency
  • Who funds INSIGHT PRISON PROJECT
  • Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC
  • Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Humane Society of North Texas
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC
  • Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FORT WORTH ABROAD
  • Who funds Assist the Officer Fort Worth
  • Who funds PROJECT 4031 INC

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.

Amon G Carter FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust Simmons Bank Trustee · McCallum Family Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Robert S and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Sid W Richardson Foundation

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 Jobe and Helen Richards Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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