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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.

$279k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$534kHealth$387kAnimals$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kRecreation & Sports$126kFood & Nutrition$122kHuman Services$94kScience & Tech$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $260k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $15k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $15k → 12%THE FAMILY PANTRY-DAMIENS PLACE CORP: $15k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $15k → 12%THE FAMILY PANTRY-DAMIENS PLACE CORP: $15k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $15k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $20k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $20k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $15k → 12%DUNEDIN CARES INC: $6k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $8k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 28 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+72%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +21%
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +146%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +183%
  • AB
    American Battlefield Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +72%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
4
Furman University

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.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
9
The Mount Sinai Hospital

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

—
11
The Memorial Hospital

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…

Health
12
New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $145,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL C…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FO…FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER I…Trustees of Mease Hospital Inc: $70,000 · HealthTrustees of Mease Hospital IncFALMOUTH HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $30,000 · HealthFALMOUTH HOSPITAL AUXILIARYMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $14,000 · HealthFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $240,000 · EducationFALMOUTH ACADEMY INCFRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $115,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMY INCUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $27,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA B…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $38,000 · Education+6 moreSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Do…Dunedin Cares Inc: $92,000 · Human ServicesDunedin Cares IncCLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS INCTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DA…FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $61,000 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE…VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $31,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CONGRES…WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29,000 · OtherWAKEFIELD HIGH S…VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $20,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CONGRES…CRISTO REY TAMPA HIGH SCHOOL AT MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS INC: $15,000 · OtherCRISTO REY TAMPA…MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherMIKEROWEWORKS FO…WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 · OtherWAREHAM LAND TRU…BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $20,000 · OtherBELONGING TO EAC…+5 more: $22,500 · Other+5 moreAMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION: $125,500 · Recreation & SportsWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $80,000 · Science & TechFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $75,000 · Youth Development
Health$519,000Education$440,000Human Services$355,000Other$268,500Recreation & Sports$125,500Science & Tech$80,000Youth Development$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $240,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION: $125,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDunedin Cares Inc: $92,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Mease Hospital Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $61,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFALMOUTH HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $30,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetWAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAREHAM LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $14,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDunedin Friends of the Library Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPIRAL SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUNEDIN YOUTH GUILD: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cape Cod Foundation I…The US Charitable Gif…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rickard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rickard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home