California · Private foundation
Richards Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $41k
- Granted FY2019
- 49
- Grants FY2019
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2019
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2019
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Richards Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Monterey County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Richards Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 38 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2019
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2019
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2019
- States reached, FY2019
- 7
- Total assets, FY2019
- $978k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2019, 26% of the organizations Richards Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 42 | $31k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Assisted Happiness Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $8,175 | 6 | 0% |
| Morgan Autism Center | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Levy Family Campus | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $7,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Montage Health Foundation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Achievekids | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $4,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Laces | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richards Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Morris and Mary Press Foundation · Mentor Graphics Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Richards Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Richards Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Richards Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Richards Family Charitable Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $41,050 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
- What does Richards Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (20%), Health (13%).
- Who are Richards Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Animal Assisted Happiness Inc ($11k), Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($8k), Morgan Autism Center ($8k).
- Does Richards Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2019, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richards Family Charitable 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 Richards Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Agilent Technologies Foundation.
- Where is Richards Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Richards Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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