· Private foundation
The Richardson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
- $250k+1 grant · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $481,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $49,700 |
| NEIGHBERS LINK | $36,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $14,300 |
| BARD GRADUATE CENTERBARD COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| EIGHTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOR OXFORD INC | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $5,200 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
98 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +58%
- TRThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $595k · revenue +50%
The Fistula Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +45%
- BTBALLET THEATER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $21k
- HMHOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLISgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 160 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHNORTH INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM ↗
- Who funds HOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Bauer Family Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · The Peek Family Foundation Inc · The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Kiwanis Foundation of Easton · Lanbro Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Richardson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sheffield Association Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Egremont Land Trust Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.