· Private foundation
The Richlin Family 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 $10k23 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $10,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| FARM NECK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SHERIFFS MEADOW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV | $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 (FY18–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +40%
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +432%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +43%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- OAOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -13%
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 62 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds FARM NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richlin Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 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.