· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CROSS WORLD | $1,000 |
| MATTHEW 101 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| OH BE JOYFUL CHURCH | $990 |
| TEXANS ON A MISSION | $500 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $500 |
| PRACTICE MINISTRIES | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEJAS MISSIONS INC ↗
- 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 AMAZON OUTREACH Inc ↗
- Who funds Vitamin Bridge ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Practice Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Apartment Life Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richardson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richardson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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