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Paul K Richter Memorial Fund at a glance

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Paul K Richter Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$661k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $860k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.0M
$250,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KNOX COLLEGE$661,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF$275,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$270,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$250,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$250,000
POMONA COLLEGE$250,000
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$225,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$225,000
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY$210,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$200,000
REED INSTITUTE$40,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%REED INSTITUTE: $300k → 17%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $305k → 14%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $210k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $315k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $305k → 14%KNOX COLLEGE: $661k → 15%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $317k → 10%REED INSTITUTE: $300k → 17%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $305k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $305k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $305k → 14%KNOX COLLEGE: $300k → 15%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $305k → 10%REED INSTITUTE: $250k → 17%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $305k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $225k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $303k → 14%KNOX COLLEGE: $300k → 15%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $305k → 10%REED INSTITUTE: $210k → 17%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $300k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $222k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%KNOX COLLEGE: $210k → 15%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $261k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $275k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $221k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $250k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $250k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $222k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $250k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $222k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $222k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $300k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $275k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $250k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $210k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $210k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE: $250k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE: $250k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE: $250k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE: $210k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MA
OR
IN
CT
CA
NC
TX
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 14 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$21M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+103%

Still filing today

64%
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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • KC
    KNOX COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +12%
  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +41%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HC
    Hanover Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +103%
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
10
University of Mount Union

The university affirms the institution's mission to prepare students for fulfilling lives, meaningful work and responsible citizenship. the university of mount union offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide array of academic…

Education
11
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
12
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KNOX COLLEGE: $2,099,428 · EducationKNOX COLLEGEOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $1,773,428 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGEWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,725,898 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYPOMONA COLLEGE: $1,649,428 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEClaremont Graduate University: $1,568,500 · EducationClaremont Graduate UniversitySouthern Methodist University: $1,413,428 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $454,033 · Education+2 more: $205,859 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF: $2,262,352 · OtherCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OFDARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2,136,602 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGEYALE UNIVERSITY: $1,633,602 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYREED INSTITUTE: $1,628,428 · OtherREED INSTITUTEYALE UNIVERSITY: $575,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYNorthwestern University: $2,011,642 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…
Education$10,890,002Other$8,235,984Recreation & Sports$2,011,642

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

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
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 KNOX COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hanover College ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul K Richter Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul K Richter Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • George Fox University: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, 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.

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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