· Private foundation
The Richardson 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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF | $15,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC | $7,000 |
| AVOW HOSPICE INC | $7,000 |
| NASHVILLE JAZZ WORKSHOP | $6,000 |
| NASHVILLE CAT RESCUE | $4,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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 +60% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +69%
- FKFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +97%
- AHALIVE HOSPICE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HSHEAVEN SOUTH INCone grant, 2018 · $6k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SCSARA CANNON CANCER FUNDone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…
Providing safe affordable alcohol-free and drug-free housing to clients in rehabilitation in the memphis tn regional community.
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
We are a dog sanctuary for unadoptable dogs.
Noah's Ark Animal Homestay Inc. is organized exclusively for public charitable purposes for the prevention of cruelty and rescue to animals. The organization is not-for-profit and obtained 501(c)(3) status from the IRS in 2022. We are…
Saving Stevie is a nonprofit operating in the greater Nashville area. We aim to help kitties through education, TNR (trap neuter return) and adopting spayed/neutered animals into loving homes.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…
Public welfare, specifically the rescue and temporary housing of dogs, cats, and other animals. To reunite lost pets with their owners and match homeless pets with a loving family.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Jazz Workshop ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Recovery Community Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PEARLPOINT CANCER SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE RESCUE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · T & T Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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