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Paul K Richter Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$661,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$59M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Paul K Richter Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$2.9M0%
FY202412$2.6M0%
FY202311$2.7M0%
FY202211$3.0M0%
FY202113$2.5M8%
FY202012$2.5M8%
FY201911$2.4M0%
FY201813$1.9M15%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$16MScience & Tech$2.3MRecreation & Sports$2.0MSocial Science$788k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MA
OR
IN
CT
CA
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Knox College$2,099,42891%
Northwestern University$2,011,64280%
Occidental College$1,773,42890%
Wake Forest University$1,725,89890%
Pomona College$1,649,42880%
Yale University$1,633,6027n/a
Claremont Graduate University$1,568,50090%
Southern Methodist University$1,413,42890%
Yale University$575,0002n/a
George Fox University$454,03350%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Paul K Richter Memorial Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Knox College$2,099,42891%
Northwestern University$2,011,64280%
Occidental College$1,773,42890%
Wake Forest University$1,725,89890%
Pomona College$1,649,42880%
Yale University$1,633,6027n/a
Claremont Graduate University$1,568,50090%
Southern Methodist University$1,413,42890%
Yale University$575,0002n/a
George Fox University$454,03350%
Azusa Pacific University$155,85920%
Hanover College$50,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul K Richter Memorial Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKnox College: $2,099,428 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,011,642 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOccidental College: $1,773,428 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWake Forest University: $1,725,898 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPomona College: $1,649,428 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $1,568,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $1,413,428 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $454,033 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $155,859 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHanover College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About Paul K Richter Memorial Fund

How much does Paul K Richter Memorial Fund give?
Paul K Richter Memorial Fund reported 11 grants totaling $2,856,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paul K Richter Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Science & Tech (11%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Paul K Richter Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Knox College ($2.1M), Northwestern University ($2.0M), Occidental College ($1.8M).
Does Paul K Richter Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul K Richter Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Paul K Richter Memorial Fund based?
Paul K Richter Memorial Fund is based in TX.

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 15 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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