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Richardson 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Richardson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$126k17%
FY202421$106k10%
FY202326$112k31%
FY202221$121k33%
FY202116$119k44%
FY202012$95kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$180kHousing & Shelter$111kEducation$102kArts & Culture$97kFood & Nutrition$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$56kHealth$15kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richardson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGoochlandCares: $152,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBlue Grass Resource Center: $73,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetElk Hill Farm Inc: $59,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Collegiate School: $49,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLiberation Veteran Services Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBath County Arts Association: $23,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNorthstar Academy Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBath County Christmas Mother Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJobs for Virginia Graduates Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVMI Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBath Community Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoochland Christmas Mother: $5,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPelotonia: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBolar Volunteer Rescue Squad: $3,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGoochland Pet Lovers: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLittle Hands Virginia Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Retreat Centers Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeter Paul Development Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · 4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn · The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund · Massey Family Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust

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.

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About Richardson Family Foundation

How much does Richardson Family Foundation give?
Richardson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $125,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Richardson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (15%).
Who are Richardson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: GoochlandCares ($153k), Blue Grass Resource Center ($73k), Elk Hill Farm Inc ($59k).
Does Richardson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richardson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richardson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
Where is Richardson Family Foundation based?
Richardson Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 40 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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