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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 FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$481k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.3MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$292kInternational$225kCrime & Legal$172kReligion$105kPhilanthropy$99kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
  • $250k+1 grant · $481k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$5,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$5,000
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION: $1k → 8%INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION: $1k → 8%NEIGHBERS LINK: $70k → 9%NEIGHBERS LINK: $55k → 9%NEIGHBERS LINK: $50k → 9%NEIGHBERS LINK: $40k → 9%NEIGHBERS LINK: $36k → 9%PROJECT OF EASTON: $5k → 11%NEIGHBERS LINK: $4k → 9%PROJECT OF EASTON: $5k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON: $5k → 11%EASTON AREA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $5k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $4k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $4k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON: $3k → 11%EASTON AREA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $3k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $3k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
OK
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 98 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
55

Total granted

$6.0M
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+37%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +58%
  • TR
    The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $595k · revenue +50%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +45%
  • BT
    BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • HM
    HOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLISgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +33%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Fordham University

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.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Manhattan University

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…

Education
11
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

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.

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12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 160 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/106
Grantees still filing
76/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,591,199 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $406,700 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC+21 more: $203,096 · Arts & Culture+21 moreThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $595,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua Sc…The Trustees of Princeton University: $289,122 · EducationThe Trustees of Prince…THE HILL SCHOOL: $145,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $110,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD I…+10 more: $85,900 · Education+10 moreTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $430,000 · OtherTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOC…NY GENOME CENTER: $200,000 · OtherNY GENOME CENTEREIGHTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $75,000 · OtherEIGHTH CHURCH OF CHRIST S…COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $51,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $47,850 · OtherROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Other+98 more: $530,505 · Other+98 moreThe Fistula Foundation: $475,000 · HealthThe Fistula…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $154,300 · HealthPLANNED PAR…+6 more: $13,115 · HealthNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $255,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $13,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $12,500 · Human Services+4 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $165,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $54,540 · International+1 more: $5,500 · InternationalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $165,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$2,200,995Education$1,225,022Other$1,391,855Health$642,415Human Services$302,500International$225,040Crime & Legal$165,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,591,199 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $595,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $475,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $430,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $406,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $289,122 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $255,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $165,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $154,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $145,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $54,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $37,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPATHNORTH INC: $29,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $26,931 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $25,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $22,436 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $15,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM: $15,175 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR EASTON INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $11,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $11,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFocus Forward: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN JAY HOMESTEAD: $9,450 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTON AREA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY: $7,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for a Civil Society LTD: $5,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $5,000 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of the Gre…Bauer Family Foundati…John a and Margaret P…The Peek Family Found…The ZelnickBelzberg C…Frederick H Bedford J…Peckham Family Founda…Lehigh Valley Communi…Air Products Foundati…The New York Communit…Kiwanis Foundation of…Lanbro Foundation
United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
33report 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 160 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home