· Private foundation
The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BON SAMARITAIN MISSION HAITI | $26,892 |
| ANNE K TAYLOR FUND | $25,000 |
| JUSTICE DEFENDERS | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $20,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $16,892 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $14,158 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI | $12,000 |
| SEED PROGRAMS INC | $12,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC | $10,000 |
| FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC | $10,000 |
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $10,000 |
| BENNET COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $605k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +98%- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +38%
THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROTARY CAROUSEL LLCone grant, 2019 · $11k
- KFKELLIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +86%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
To provide hope to families in crisis as they transition into sustainable housing by offering access to affordable home furnishings.
Greenlight's mission is to achieve the best outcomes for families, young adults, and children by providing the highest quality services. its primary focus is to provide adoption and guardianship for children in the welfare system.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Save Valley Conservancy Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 97 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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF THE FATHER OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE K TAYLOR FUND ↗
- Who funds SEED PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELS4HOPE ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAVE VALLEY CONSERVANCY FUND ↗
- Who funds READING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds A SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AID ↗
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 Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Weaver Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund 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 Mary Lynn Richardson Fund 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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