· Private foundation
The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE DONALD F WOOD AND DARLENE M RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH | $40,000 |
| CAMP RED CEDAR | $35,000 |
| SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $35,000 |
| CASS HOUSING | $30,000 |
| STILLWATER HOSPICE | $30,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADU | $30,000 |
| YMCA GREATER FORT WAYNE | $30,000 |
| BLUE JACKET | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORLINK | $25,000 |
| POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION | $23,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $20,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| GIVE HEAR | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $481k) 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 +21% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 94% 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
- M2MATTHEW 25 INC7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +54%
- CHCASS HOUSING INC7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +26%
- IOIMAGE OF HOPE RANCH6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +267%
Funded once
- PUPURDUE UNIV COLL OF ARTS & SCIENCESone grant, 2019 · $17k
- NINE IN POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- TLTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +30%
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
The mission of opportunity enterprises is to create inclusive and equitable opportunites for people of all abilities. the agency provides vocational training, day services, transportation, and residential services to clients in porter…
Our mission is to work to include all children and adults with developmental delays or other disabilities in every community by identifying barriers, building partnerships, and realizing solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Image of Hope Ranch. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. 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 10% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 71 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.
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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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation 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 The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc 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.
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