How much does John D Richardson Foundation give?

John D Richardson Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $57,461 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does John D Richardson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).

Who are John D Richardson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($108k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($63k), Stand Up to Cancer ($22k).

Does John D Richardson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John D Richardson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as John D Richardson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, American Express Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities.

Where is John D Richardson Foundation based?

John D Richardson Foundation is based in AZ.

John D Richardson Foundation

John D Richardson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John D Richardson 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.

$57k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$149kHealth$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kPhilanthropy$48kHuman Services$19kReligion$18kAnimals$9kSocial Science$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k29 grants · $33k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$330k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Red Cross	$12,500
Arizona State University Foundation	$12,000
Schwab Charitable Foundation	$9,500
Stand Up to Cancer	$5,000
Miami University Foundation	$3,630
Diocese of Phoenix	$2,000
CFA Society Phoenix	$1,750
Phoenix Zoo	$1,000
Colorado State University Foundatio	$1,000
Shriners Hospital for Children	$1,000
Phoenix Rescue Mission	$850
St Marys Food Bank	$750
Christian Family Care	$750
University of Hawaii Foundation	$600
Delta Sigma Pi Leadership Foundtion	$531

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 (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$370k · 69 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$370k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+36%

Still filing today

67%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +196%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +46%
MU
Miami University Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +14%

Funded once

AS
Arizona State Univerity Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $12k
SC
Schwab Charitable Trust
one grant, 2017 · $7k
FC
Fidelity Charitable Fund
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

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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Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

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

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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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Stardust Foundation Inc. 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

84 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. 84 of the 154 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)

83/84

Grantees still filing

64/84

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$135,036Other$147,564Human Services$76,695Philanthropy$24,663Health$13,939Religion$6,950Food & Nutrition$6,370

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ23.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Gannett Foundation Inc · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon 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 John D Richardson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D Richardson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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