· 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 $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 |
| ARK INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| CHILD ENRICHMENT | $15,000 |
| TIMBERLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,692 |
| AUGUSTA PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| JOURNEY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAFE HOMES | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
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, $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 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 +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +27%
Funded once
- 1C12TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT COMMISSIONone grant, 2020 · $64k
- EIELECTION INTEGRITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $60k
- VVVALID VOTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +39%
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 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…
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 206 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- The Heart of Camden Inc: 41% of income from government
How this is measured
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