Georgia · Private foundation
The Richards Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $505,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Richards Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $837k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $870k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $2.2M | 59% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $1.9M | 92% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $620k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Miles Inc | $1,460,000 | 7 | 26% |
| University of West Georgia Foundation Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Telluride Science | $250,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Deployus Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Journalism Funding Partners | $226,162 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Richards Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Green South Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Patagoniaorg · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Richards Foundation
- How much does The Richards Foundation give?
- The Richards Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $2,429,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Richards Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (21%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are The Richards Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: One Hundred Miles Inc ($1.5M), University of West Georgia Foundation Inc ($900k), Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ($800k).
- Does The Richards Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Richards Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Richards Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Green South Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Richards Foundation based?
- The Richards Foundation is based in GA.
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