· Private foundation
Richardson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $803k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA | $505,498 |
| BABY2BABY | $297,600 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $100,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MAYOR'S FUND FOR LAS VEGAS | $25,000 |
| DIGITAL BRIDGES 4 NEPAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE | $11,000 |
| LAS VEGAS FASHION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| VIEWS FC | $10,000 |
| THE SHARK FUND | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $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 (FY20–24, $1.6M) 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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- MNMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +64%
- BBABY2BABY5× · 2020–2024 · $513k · revenue +15%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
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 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…
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…
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…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.
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.
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
Calnonprofits, the leading policy voice for california's nonprofit sector, focuses on advocacy, education, and research to build a more powerful and politically engaged nonprofit network across california.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Digital Bridges 4 Nepal Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL BRIDGES 4 NEPAL INC ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Fashion Council Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHARK FUND ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS ↗
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Susan G Fine Family Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · The Gordon Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Richardson Charitable 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Richardson Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Richardson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.