· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| CITY MISSION | $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 |
| TEAM THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| RAHAB MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $3,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +8%
- COCOALITION OF CHILDREN IN NEED ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -68%
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richards Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richards Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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