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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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- PCPEARLPOINT CANCER SUPPORT INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alive Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is True Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 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 OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Jazz Workshop ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Recovery Community Inc ↗
- Who funds PEARLPOINT CANCER SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION 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: 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
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.
- Avow Hospice Inc — 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.
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