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Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$223k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$902kEnvironment$321kInternational$278kCrime & Legal$150kEducation$57kScience & Tech$20kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $223k
$223,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFOSA$223,200
KIND$30,000
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.

US giving: 45% of grant dollars ($779k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 55% that went abroad ($954k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORD POSSIBLE: $5k → 10%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $29k → 17%FEED THE CHILDREN: $5k → 16%KIND: $30k → 14%ORO VERDE: $25k → 17%DEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER: $178k → 12%NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE AND SAILING: $5k → 9%BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEESIERRA LEONE PROJECT: $20k → 17%KIND: $30k → 14%ORO VERDE: $16k → 17%DEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER: $143k → 12%NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE AND SAILING: $5k → 9%BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEESIERRA LEONE PROJECT: $14k → 17%KIND: $30k → 14%ORO VERDE: $12k → 17%DEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER: $125k → 12%NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE AND SAILING: $5k → 9%KIND: $30k → 14%NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE AND SAILING: $5k → 9%KIND: $20k → 14%KIND: $20k → 14%KIND: $10k → 14%KIND: $10k → 14%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.

Beyond the US: 55% of all-years giving ($954k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Guatemala$902k · 4 grants
Germany$52k · 3 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 89% of Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 98% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 7 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +185% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+185%
-4%

Still filing today

29%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • A
    AFOSA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M
  • DO
    DEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $445k
  • KIND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +38%
  • WP
    WORLD POSSIBLE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -4%
  • FT
    FEED THE CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -35%
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
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFOSA: $1,124,866 · OtherAFOSADEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER: $445,337 · OtherDEFENSE OF NATURE FRIENDS OF FDN FOUNDATION CO T GROVER+3 more: $106,432 · Other+3 moreKIND INC: $180,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INCBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $29,400 · InternationalWORLD POSSIBLE: $5,058 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · International
Other$1,676,635Crime & Legal$180,000International$129,458

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIND INC: $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $29,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD POSSIBLE: $5,058 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds KIND INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD POSSIBLE ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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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Find your warmest path to Mike & Faye Richardson Family Foundation 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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