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Richards 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.
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 $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| CITY MISSION | $25,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| FIELDSTONE COUNSELING | $20,000 |
| SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC | $20,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $18,000 |
| STORY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHAPEL | $10,000 |
| NOVA WOMENS HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| TEAM THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| RAHAB MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $3,000 |
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, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CVCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +133%
- AFAMBASSADORS FOOTBALL9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +35%
- VCValley Christian Academy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- RARESTORE ADDICTION RECOVERYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -1%
- BWBELLA WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
- COCOALITION OF CHILDREN IN NEED ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -68%
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.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Making Biblical counseling from licensed mental health professionals accessible to anyone who has need regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
Unite the presence of jesus christ and the healing power of god's word with professional counseling in addressing the conflicts of life.
Biblical counseling
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Training & certification of christian biblical counselors
Provide biblical counseling to those that are in need (distressed) and for the advancement of religion
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Gospel mission
New Covenant Academy NCA is a Christian college preparatory school. NCAs mission is to educate, enable, and equip the Christian Leaders of Tomorrow. NCA is committed to offering theologically sound, balanced, and practical Christian…
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the most unlike its peers is Nova Women's Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL ↗
- Who funds Valley Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds STREAMS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds RESTORE ADDICTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BELLA WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF CHILDREN IN NEED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Team Giving Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED ADORATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: In His Steps Foundation · Rothenbuhler Family Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Akron Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richards Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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