· Private foundation
The Paul C Richards and Gladys W Richards Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLING PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| HEALING HEROS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOVELANE | $10,000 |
| ROSEMARY FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| MSPCA - ANGELL | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL ORPHAN PRJOECTCAREPORTAL | $10,000 |
| TRANSFERWARE COLLECTORS CLUB | $10,000 |
| ROOF TOP OF VIRGINIA | $6,818 |
| MY BROTHER'S TABLE | $1,818 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFROSEMARY FARM SANCTUARY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +83%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +145%- WPWILLING PARTNERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TCTRANSFERWARE COLLECTORS CLUB RESEARCH GRANTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SMSMILE MASS INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
Providing adoption assistance and veterinary care and grooming for impounded or lost animals. maintain and upkeep the scituate animal shelter. thousands of animals adopted up to date.
To sponsor, develop, offer and/or promote services and programs relating to the care, treatment and healing of humans, which services and programs are charitable, scientific, and/or educational and which address the physical and mental…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
The hospital's mission is to provide high quality care to the sick and injured, on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, without regard to race, creed, national origin, age, gender, disability, or ability to pay. (continued on schedule…
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To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ROSEMARY FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILLING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paul C Richards and Gladys W Richards Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul C Richards and Gladys W Richards Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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