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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 $10k26 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUTHER FUND | $1,231,075 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $50,094 |
| DONORS TRUST | $50,000 |
| UNITED AFRICAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| GAP MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CHILD ENRICHMENT | $15,000 |
| ARK INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| TIMBERLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,692 |
| JOURNEY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| SAFE HOMES | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
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, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 25 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- CECHILD ENRICHMENT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $203k · revenue +187%
- SHSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +94%
- GCGEORGIA-CAROLINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NC#933× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- 1C12TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT COMMISSIONone grant, 2020 · $64k
- EIELECTION INTEGRITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $60k
- VVVALID VOTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +39%
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.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthserve Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leadership Kershaw Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 206 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds Augusta Symphony Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-CAROLINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NC#93 ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds VALID VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANT CHOICES ↗
- Who funds THE RECING CREW ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED AMERICAN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR LIT ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Rehabilitation Institute Inc · University Health Services Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · George a Sancken Jr Foundation · Ramachandra and Niranjini Reddy Foundation Inc · Erramuzpe Foundation Inc · Clinton-Anderson Hospital Inc · Widows Home
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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Heart of Camden Inc — 41% 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.
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