Texas · Private foundation
Richardson 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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $177k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Richardson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $57k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $82k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $44k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $75k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $39k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hide-A-Way Lake Community Church | $135,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Baylor University | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Denison Ministries | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Esperanza Ministries | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pca Foundation | $6,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Christian Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tejas Missions Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Redeemer City To City | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Dallas Community School | $3,750 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hide-A-Way Lake Community Church | $135,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Baylor University | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Denison Ministries | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Esperanza Ministries | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pca Foundation | $6,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Christian Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tejas Missions Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Redeemer City To City | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Dallas Community School | $3,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Ambassadors Impact Network Inc | $3,250 | 1 | 2% |
| Park Cities Presbyterian Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| AMAZON OUTREACH Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crossworld | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vitamin Bridge | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Momentous Institute | $503 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence Christian School of Texas | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Practice Ministries Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Apartment Life Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Living Alternatives Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richardson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Merrick Family Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Servant Foundation · The Leiser Family Foundation Inc · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Richardson Foundation
- How much does Richardson Foundation give?
- Richardson Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $56,640 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Richardson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (59%), Education (28%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are Richardson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hide-A-Way Lake Community Church ($136k), Baylor University ($57k), Denison Ministries ($31k).
- Does Richardson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richardson 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Richardson Foundation based?
- Richardson Foundation is based in TX.
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