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Rickard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| FALMOUTH ACADEMY INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| DUNEDIN CARES INC | $15,000 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY-DAMIENS PLACE CORP | $15,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF MEASE HOSPITAL INC | $15,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCHES INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $344k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FAFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +21%
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +146%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +61%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +183%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +21%- ABAmerican Battlefield Trustgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +72%
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Until the organization closed on january 1, 2018, our mission was primary care and preventative medicine, providing advanced diagnosis and treatment with a focus on teaching and research. an essential resource in achieving our mission was…
To provide patient care at the highest quality, most technologically advanced and consistent multidisciplinary care in an environment where the safety, dignity and comfort of each patient are paramount. in delivering patient care, new york…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 38 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Dunedin Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Mease Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Dunedin Friends of the Library Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SPIRAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUNEDIN YOUTH GUILD ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Rickard Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wareham Land Trust Inc — 27% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trustees of Mease Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.