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The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$958kPhilanthropy$519kArts & Culture$341kHousing & Shelter$335kRecreation & Sports$260kFood & Nutrition$210kEducation$161kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $680k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH$40,000
SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER$35,000
CAMP RED CEDAR$35,000
STILLWATER HOSPICE$30,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK$30,000
TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADU$30,000
YMCA GREATER FORT WAYNE$30,000
CASS HOUSING$30,000
MATTHEW 25$30,000
NEIGHBORLINK$25,000
BLUE JACKET$25,000
POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION$23,000
ERIN'S HOUSE$20,000
COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK$20,000
FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUT OF A JAM: $10k → 12%OUT OF A JAM: $3k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CTR: $40k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $30k → 12%SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CTR: $15k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $15k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $23k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $23k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $20k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $20k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $15k → 12%POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $5k → 12%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS: $5k → 12%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $2k → 12%SCAN: $5k → 12%SCAN: $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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 52 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
13

Total granted

$3.7M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-3%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • M2
    MATTHEW 25 INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +54%
  • CH
    CASS HOUSING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +26%
  • IO
    IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +267%

Funded once

  • PU
    PURDUE UNIV COLL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • TL
    THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • NI
    NE IN POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
2
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

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3
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
4
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

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.

Education
5
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Crossroads Rehabilitation Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Indiana Health Centers Inc

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.

Health
9
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
10
Lifesteps Inc

Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.

Education
11
Opportunity Enterprises Inc

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…

Employment
12
The Arc of Indiana County

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA GREATER FORT WAYNE: $210,000 · OtherYMCA GREATER FORT WAYNETURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADU: $165,000 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADUSTILLWATER HOSPICE: $160,000 · OtherSTILLWATER HOSPICEVISITING NURSE: $137,500 · OtherVISITING NURSENEIGHBORLINK: $130,000 · OtherNEIGHBORLINKTROY SCHOOLS: $114,500 · OtherTROY SCHOOLSCROSSROAD CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 · OtherARTS UNITED: $95,000 · OtherTHE FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC: $94,775 · OtherERIN'S HOUSE: $80,000 · Other13 STEP HOUSE: $65,000 · OtherBLUE JACKET INC: $80,000 · Other+30 more: $484,167 · Other+30 moreMATTHEW 25 INC: $200,000 · HealthMATTHEW 25 INCIMAGE OF HOPE RANCH: $193,000 · HealthIMAGE OF HOPE RANCHANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC: $130,000 · HealthANTHONY WAYNE REHABIL…HEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $84,500 · HealthHEARCARE CONNECTION I…Super Shot Inc: $60,000 · HealthSuper Shot IncHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $50,000 · HealthHEALTHIER MOMS AND BA…CHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $45,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOPE INCCHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $42,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT EQUES…NORTHEAST INDIANA POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IN…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $97,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TR…+4 more: $48,000 · Human Services+4 moreCASS HOUSING INC: $195,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $180,000 · Food & NutritionSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,915,942Health$835,000Philanthropy$500,000Human Services$481,000Housing & Shelter$330,000Food & Nutrition$180,000Arts & Culture$94,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $225,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC: $195,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetIMAGE OF HOPE RANCH: $193,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $180,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION INC: $111,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROAD CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $97,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $84,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOUT OF A JAM INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoe's Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRTEEN STEP HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHeartland Sings Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 3.6% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
  • Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA POSITIVE RESOURCE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROAD CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
  • Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds EUELL A WILSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Waterfield Founda…English-Bonter-Mitche…M E Raker Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Howard P Arnold Found…The James Foundation …Aws Foundation IncDr Louis a and Anne B…Lincoln Financial Fou…Journal Gazette Found…Surack Family Foundat…
Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN70.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc 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.

    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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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