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· Private foundation
THE KIM AND DON RICHARDS FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$4k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants
2
Communities
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Human Services$17kRecreation & Sports$500Animals$350Arts & Culture$50Public Safety & Disaster$20Other$1k
02FY2020 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION$3,000
- REINING STRENGTH HORSEMANSHIP$500
- TEXAS WOLFDOG PROJECT$300
- HARRY'S HOME$250
- NAMI WALKS$100
- NSWCC$100
- ATHLETES WITHOUT LIMITS$75
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Heroes Equine Assisted Riding Therapy
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2
Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Philanthropy
3
Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc
Enhancing lives by providing high quality and accredited equine assisted services in a safe, fun, and compassionate environment. We serve children and adults with physical, cognitive, social, and psychological needs through adaptive…
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4
Woerth It Hollow
Equine-Assisted Programs
Animals
5
Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
6
Holistic Horsemanship Services
Health
7
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
The houston livestock show and rodeo educational fund (the "educational fund") was incorporated under the laws of the state of texas in june 1988 and was granted tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code in…
Recreation & Sports
8
Special Equestrians Inc
Special Equestrians provides therapeutic riding programs to individuals with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
Recreation & Sports
9
Re-Ride Quarter Horse Adoption Program
The RE-RIDE Quarter Horse Adoption Program offers a safe haven for displaced or unwanted registered Quarter and Paint horses. Our program focuses on rehabilitation, retraining and adopting horses into qualified loving homes.
Animals
10
Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track
The rehabilitation of horses and people through interaction with each other.
Animals
11
Washington International Horse Show
The Washingon International Horse Show is a historic, world class equestrian event that engages,entertains and educates the Washington DC community while supporting charitable and military causes
Recreation & Sports
12
Horsesense for Special Riders Inc
Dedicated to enriching the lives of individuals with special needs through a partnership with the horses.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$17,075Other$1,070Recreation & Sports$500Animals$350Arts & Culture$50Public Safety & Disaster$20
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 HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WOLFDOG PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES WITHOUT LIMITS ↗
- Who funds HENRY'S HOME HORSE AND HUMAN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SIRE ↗
- Who funds REINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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.
Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE KIM AND DON RICHARDS 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TEXAS WOLFDOG PROJECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 463103832 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on TEXAS WOLFDOG PROJECT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Kim and Don Richards Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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