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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Keep My Hood Good$24,000
Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center$20,000
Mayo Clinic$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
The Star Center$3,000
Scarlet Rope Project$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Scarlet Rope Project: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 11 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$330k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+55%

Still filing today

45%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +76%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • JA
    JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • PA
    PROTECT AMERICANS NOW
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -100% · 58% of their budget
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Jacksongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +55%
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.

1
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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2
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
3
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Belmont Professional Associates Inc

To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…

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6
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
7
Wellmont Medical Associates Inc

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health
8
Jackson Family Childcare

To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential

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9
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
12
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Protect Americans Now. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Keep My Hood Good: $108,926 · OtherKeep My Hood GoodIndividual grant recipient: $85,345 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherSIERRA VISTA HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $15,188 · Other+7 moreMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $52,300 · HealthWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $4,100 · HealthPROTECT AMERICANS NOW: $20,405 · AnimalsStar Center Inc: $6,700 · EmploymentJACKSON ARTS COUNCIL: $4,174 · Arts & CultureJackson Symphony Association: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBoys and Girls Club of Jackson: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $1,500 · Human ServicesHands Up Preschool Inc: $500 · Education
Other$256,459Health$256,400Animals$20,405Employment$6,700Arts & Culture$5,174Youth Development$2,500Human Services$1,500Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $52,300 over 5y, 0.2% 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
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT AMERICANS NOW ↗
  • Who funds Star Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
  • Who funds SCARLET ROPE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Hope Recovery Center ↗
  • Who funds WEST TN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds Hands Up Preschool Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 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.

The Murray Foundation…James E Campbell Fami…West Tn Healthcare Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Richardson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richardson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.

    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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