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Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family 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.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 39
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$108k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving2$25k0%
FY20243$35k0%
FY20235$37k20%
FY20226$47k17%
FY20212$25k0%
FY20203$8k0%
FY201919$2.0M47%
FY201839$2.0M26%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.7MHealth$520kPhilanthropy$240kPublic Benefit$200kHuman Services$87kArts & Culture$54kCommunity Improvement$34kEnvironment$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
MD
DC
FL

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
New York University$3,493,33430%
Barack H Obama Foundation$200,0001n/a
Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc$160,00035%
The Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation$120,00081%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$120,00030%
Skidmore College$107,60030%
Greenwich Academy Inc$40,00020%
Breast Cancer Alliance Inc$40,00021%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$40,00020%
University of Pittsburgh$35,00010%
Show all 36 grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $3,493,334 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUja Federation of Greenwich Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation: $120,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSkidmore College: $107,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Academy Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Alliance Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Southern CT INC: $34,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrunswick School Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greenwich Inc: $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Greenwich Connecticut Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Historical Society Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget70 Faces Media Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Fund Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids in Crisis Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdmirals Cove Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacred Heart University Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Southampton Fresh Air Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalisbury School Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 33.

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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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Dalio Family Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation

How much does Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation give?
Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Health (7%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York University ($3.5M), Barack H Obama Foundation ($200k), Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc ($160k).
Does Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family 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 Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Dalio Family Fund Inc.
Where is Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation based?
Richard and Ellen Richman Private Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 62 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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