· Private foundation
The Richless Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $9,720 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $350 |
| BAYSHORE GARDENS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $260 |
| HISTORIC SOCIETY OF BLAIRSVILLE AREA | $150 |
| MARIE SHELBY GARDENS | $125 |
| COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $100 |
| LAURIE ANN WEST COMMUNITY CENTER | $100 |
| COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $100 |
| ROOTS OF FAITH MINISTRIES | $79 |
| PARKVIEW EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE | $50 |
| RAILS TO TRAILS | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $50 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $50 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $50 |
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 (FY22–24, $33) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $600 · revenue +183%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC6× · 2017–2025 · $450 · revenue +4%
- FCFox Chapel District Association6× · 2017–2022 · $210 · revenue +909%
Funded once
- HUHOPEWELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BCBLAIRSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UIURBAN IMPACTone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.
To advocate for quality cancer care for all people touched by cancer.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 54 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 COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Open Hand Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel District Association ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richless Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richless Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
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