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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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (SCHOLARSHIP) | $5,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,500 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $2,100 |
| FRIENDS OF L A C E S | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SILICON VALLEY | $2,000 |
| MORGAN AUTISM CENTER | $1,500 |
| ACHIEVEKIDS | $1,500 |
| ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS INC | $1,500 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $1,275 |
| VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2019, 16 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +20%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +67%- MAMORGAN AUTISM CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH AMone grant, 2018 · $2k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESone grant, 2018 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO (BRAIN STUDIES)one grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 96 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Animal Assisted Happiness Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEKIDS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LACES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OPEN MIND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of San Francisco Bay Area ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richards Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richards Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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