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Richardson Charitable 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.

$501k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.0MHuman Services$520kEducation$379kAnimals$30kPublic Benefit$25kInternational$20kYouth Development$12kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA$250,000
BABY2BABY$100,000
KEEP MEMORY ALIVE$50,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
MALIBU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$20,000
NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE$11,000
FOOD FOREST NETWORK INC$10,000
MALIBU EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$4,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.9M) 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.

area typical 10%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $505k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $255k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $251k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $250k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $250k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $250k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $8k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $17k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $11k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $11k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $10k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $3k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 10 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
22

Total granted

$3.3M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MN
    MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +64%
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $613k · revenue +15%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MF
    MAYOR'S FUND FOR LAS VEGAS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
2
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
3
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Make-a-Wish Foundation International

None

Human Services
7
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
8
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

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…

Education
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
Roseman University of Health Sciences

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…

Education
11
Children's Advocacy Alliance Inc

The children's advocacy alliance is an independent voice for nevada's children, advancing systemic change in the areas of early childhood education, children's health, and child welfare. we achieve public policy wins through collaboration…

Crime & Legal
12
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $1,775,493 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA+4 more: $81,000 · Human ServicesBABY2BABY: $612,600 · OtherBABY2BABYKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $425,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVECLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+18 more: $184,900 · Other+18 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN…+3 more: $25,000 · Education+3 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 · InternationalDIGITAL BRIDGES 4 NEPAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $4,000 · HealthLas Vegas Fashion Council Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,856,493Other$1,272,500Education$325,000International$45,000Environment$30,000Health$29,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $1,775,493 over 6y, 16% of budgetBABY2BABY: $612,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $39,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL BRIDGES 4 NEPAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSHARK FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLas Vegas Fashion Council Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOOD FOREST NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalibu Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $4,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Mgm Resorts FoundationSusan G Fine Family F…The Mel & Ruth Wolzin…The Gordon FoundationCanarelli Family Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
Mgm Resorts FoundationNV15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richardson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richardson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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