· Private foundation
The Richardson Family 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 $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $104,900 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $58,500 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $57,900 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $35,800 |
| FATHER'S IN THE FIELD | $29,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,400 |
| TRANS WORLD RADIO | $23,000 |
| YOUNGLIFE | $15,100 |
| HEART TO HEART PRC OF LARAMIE | $13,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| OAKS INTERNATIONAL | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,200 |
| LIFECHOICE PCC OF CHEYENNE | $6,800 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $6,300 |
| INTER-VARSITY | $5,800 |
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 (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM9× · 2017–2025 · $526k · revenue +134%- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +59%
- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA6× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- EESPRITone grant, 2019 · $3k
- SIScriptures In Useone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +21%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The Convention of Full Gospel Churches exists to be a Holy Spirit-empowered, Christ-centered fellowship of churches, faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit, equipping the saints for service, and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 36 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT OAKS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCARLET HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Scriptures In Use ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richardson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richardson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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