· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $21,000 |
| DENNISON MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PCA FOUNDATION | $5,050 |
| HIDEAWAY LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ESPERANZA MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $3,000 |
| CASA DEL LAGO | $2,500 |
| PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MATTHEW 101 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| CROSS WORLD | $1,000 |
| OH BE JOYFUL CHURCH | $990 |
| TEXANS ON A MISSION | $500 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $500 |
| PRACTICE MINISTRIES | $100 |
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +42% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +15%- EMESPERANZA MINISTRIES3× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +321%
- TMTEJAS MISSIONS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +3%
- RCRedeemer City To Citygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +124%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Vitamin Bridge. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TEJAS MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADORS IMPACT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Vitamin Bridge ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMAZON OUTREACH Inc ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Practice Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Apartment Life Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
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: 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
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 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.