· Private foundation
Richard Higgins Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | $14,000 |
| American Foundation for the Blind | $14,000 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank | $14,000 |
| Covenant House of Florida | $14,000 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $14,000 |
| Child Welfare League of America | $14,000 |
| St Matthews House | $14,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $14,000 |
| National Federation of the Blind of | $14,000 |
| Carnegie Institution for Science | $14,000 |
| Epilepsy Services of SW Florida | $14,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $14,000 |
| Salvation Army World Service Office | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CWCHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +40%
- AFAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +11%
- ESEPILEPSY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +81%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.
Hlaa opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. hlaa is the leading voice of the growing number of people with hearing loss in the u.s. hlaa advocates for…
Integrating the blind into society
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…
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;…
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…
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.
The american heart association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard Higgins Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.