New York · 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.
- $740k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $481,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Richardson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 59 | $740k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $828k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $944k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $938k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $761k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $357k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $476k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,591,199 | 8 | 0% |
| The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc | $595,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $475,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The William J Gould Associates Inc | $430,000 | 2 | 4% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $406,700 | 8 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $289,122 | 8 | 0% |
| Neighbors Link Corp | $255,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $154,300 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($648k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Richardson Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Richardson Foundation
- How much does The Richardson Foundation give?
- The Richardson Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $739,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Richardson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Health (22%), Education (21%).
- Who are The Richardson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($1.6M), The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ($595k), The Fistula Foundation ($475k).
- Does The Richardson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Richardson 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Bauer Family Foundation, John a and Margaret Post Foundation.
- Where is The Richardson Foundation based?
- The Richardson Foundation is based in NY.
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