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The Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund at a glance

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The Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$345k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
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 2025.

Education$2.5M
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$45,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$35,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$25,000
MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE$25,000
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$20,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRI$15,000
POMONA COLLEGE$15,000
PITZER COLLEGE$15,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$15,000
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF L$15,000
HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE$15,000
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELE$15,000
LA COUNTY COLLEGE OF NURSING AND AL$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARB$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $70k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARB: $15k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRI: $15k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $50k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $25k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $25k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $20k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $15k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $15k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $15k → 14%MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $45k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $15k → 14%USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELE: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELE: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELE: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELE: $15k → 14%LA COUNTY COLLEGE OF NURSING AND AL: $15k → 14%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $20k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $20k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE: $20k → 14%PITZER COLLEGE: $20k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $15k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $15k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $55k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $20k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $20k → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 24 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
5

Total granted

$2.0M
$35k

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +68%
  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +89%
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIV OF SOUTHERN CA SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SM
    SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • LT
    LA TRADE TECH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
7
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
11
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Occidental College; the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: $190,000 · OtherMT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGEClaremont McKenna College: $120,000 · OtherClaremont McKenna CollegeUNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OF: $115,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SO CA KECK SCHOOL OFREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $110,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIALOYOLA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $107,500 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF L: $95,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARB: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRI: $85,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINEUSC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW: $75,000 · OtherUSC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAWLA COUNTY MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NURSING: $50,000 · Other+10 more: $193,001 · Other+10 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR …LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $185,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAPOMONA COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEPitzer College: $105,000 · EducationPitzer CollegeHarvey Mudd College: $95,000 · EducationHarvey Mudd CollegeWOODBURY UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationWOODBURY UNIVERSITYScripps College: $60,000 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $55,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · Education
Other$1,310,501Education$1,145,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $185,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $95,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBURY UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
  • Who funds WOODBURY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Scripps College ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 31 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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