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Richmond Community Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$477,334
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$36M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Richmond Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving16$1.7M38%
FY202315$1.4M40%
FY202212$965k42%
FY202112$1.9M50%
FY20206$1.3M33%
FY201910$1.2Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.3MHuman Services$1.0MScience & Tech$1.0MEducation$440kFood & Nutrition$270kHousing & Shelter$235kPublic Benefit$200kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Richmond Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDiscovery Place Inc: $1,005,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetThe Foundation of Firsthealth Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFirsthealth of the Carolinas Inc: $977,334 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeak Street Alumni Inc: $790,300 over 5y, 77% of budgetOur Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetRichmond Community College Foundation Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSamaritan Colony Inc: $171,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHamlet Rescue & Emergency Medical: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Nc Sandhills Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRichmond County Rescue Mission: $100,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetSandhills Children's Center: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHospitality House of Charlotte: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRichmond Interagency Transportation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHelping Hands of Hamlet INC: $17,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetAutism Society of North Carolina Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics North Carolina Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Central Nc Council #416: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTosco Music Parties Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Richmond County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBaptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThree Rivers Land Trust Inc: $1,000 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 25.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC38.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Richmond County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Philip L Van Every Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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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How do I get to Richmond Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richmond Community 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.

About Richmond Community Foundation

How much does Richmond Community Foundation give?
Richmond Community Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,735,574 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Richmond Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Community Improvement (26%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Richmond Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Discovery Place Inc ($1.0M), The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc ($1.0M), Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc ($977k).
Does Richmond Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richmond Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richmond Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, American Woodmark Foundation Inc.
Where is Richmond Community Foundation based?
Richmond Community Foundation is based in NC.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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