How much does The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund give?

The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund reported 34 grants totaling $318,592 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), International (29%), Housing & Shelter (8%).

Who are The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bon Samaritain Mission Haiti ($202k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($200k), Hearts of the Father Outreach Inc ($120k).

Does The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund based?

The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund is based in NC.

The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund

The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$319k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$27k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$841kInternational$754kHousing & Shelter$198kHealth$183kEducation$174kReligion$125kFood & Nutrition$85kEnvironment$70kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $82k
$10k–50k17 grants · $237k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BON SAMARITAIN MISSION HAITI	$26,892
ANNE K TAYLOR FUND	$25,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$20,000
JUSTICE DEFENDERS	$20,000
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL	$16,892
SALVATION ARMY	$14,158
HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI	$12,000
SEED PROGRAMS INC	$12,000
BENNET COLLEGE	$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC	$10,000
BACKPACK BEGINNINGS	$10,000
INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC	$10,000
WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$10,000
GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY	$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 62 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+36%

Still filing today

66%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & 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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +98%
GU
GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY
8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +38%
THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +45%

Funded once

TR
THE ROTARY CAROUSEL LLC
one grant, 2019 · $11k
KF
KELLIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +86%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services

Church of God Children's Home of North Carolina Inc

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

Human Services

Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition

Global Partners in Care

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.

International

Goodwill Industries of Central North Car

Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work

Employment

NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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Greenest

To provide hope to families in crisis as they transition into sustainable housing by offering access to affordable home furnishings.

Human Services

Greenlight Family Services

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.

Human Services

Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 97 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

39/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$934,743Human Services$735,864International$591,700Education$124,605Housing & Shelter$75,000Animals$65,000Food & Nutrition$62,295

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

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.

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 of Greater Greensboro IncNC59.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Lynn Richardson Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

14report 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.

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