· Private foundation
The Rivard 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $3,500 |
| Direct Relief | $1,750 |
| Shelter Box | $1,750 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Rivard Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +34% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +94%- SUSHELTERBOX USA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +34%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FGFOOD GATHERERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +28%
- MDMSF - Doctors without Boardersone grant, 2022 · $2k
- SLSt Lukes Childrens Research Hospitone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
One world surgery's mission is to ignite the spirit of service and transform lives by providing access to high-quality surgical care globally.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds VEAHAVTA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rivard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rivard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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