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The Richardson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Richardson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEmploymentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$61k40%
FY20233$48k33%
FY20222$38k0%
FY20212$44k0%
FY20203$43k33%
FY20197$55k29%
FY201810$38k40%
FY201713$71kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$280kHuman Services$110kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$20kArts & Culture$9kYouth Development$6kReligion$1kEducation$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$100,00050%
Protect Americans Now$20,405158%
Star Center Inc$6,70020%
Center for Living and Learning Inc$4,68830%
Jackson Arts Council$4,17422%
March of Dimes Inc$3,00020%
Boys and Girls Club of Jackson$2,50010%
Scarlet Rope Project$1,50010%
Therapy & Learning Center Inc$1,5002n/a
Hope Recovery Center$1,00010%
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All grantees of The Richardson Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$100,00050%
Protect Americans Now$20,405158%
Star Center Inc$6,70020%
Center for Living and Learning Inc$4,68830%
Jackson Arts Council$4,17422%
March of Dimes Inc$3,00020%
Boys and Girls Club of Jackson$2,50010%
Scarlet Rope Project$1,50010%
Therapy & Learning Center Inc$1,5002n/a
Hope Recovery Center$1,00010%
West Tn Area Council Boy Scouts of America$1,00010%
St Johns United Methodist Church$1,0001n/a
Jackson Symphony Association$1,00010%
Hands Up Preschool Inc$50010%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$10010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($248k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Richardson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Americans Now: $20,405 over 1y, 58% of budgetStar Center Inc: $6,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Living and Learning Inc: $4,688 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJackson Arts Council: $4,174 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Jackson: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScarlet Rope Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Recovery Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Tn Area Council Boy Scouts of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Symphony Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHands Up Preschool Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Murray Foundation IncTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Murray Foundation Inc · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About The Richardson Charitable Foundation

How much does The Richardson Charitable Foundation give?
The Richardson Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $80,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Richardson Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
Who are The Richardson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($100k), Protect Americans Now ($20k), Star Center Inc ($7k).
Does The Richardson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Richardson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Richardson Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Murray Foundation Inc, James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180, West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc.
Where is The Richardson Charitable Foundation based?
The Richardson Charitable Foundation is based in TN.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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