How much did THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION reported 17 grants totaling $1,399,408 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION based?

THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION is based in GA.

THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$1.3M

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MArts & Culture$94kEducation$45kEnvironment$19kHuman Services$2kOther$714k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2025

librarychattahoochee valley

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $57k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $1.3M

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC$1,292,908
COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$8,000
BROOKSTONE SCHOOL$8,000
SPRINGER ACADEMY$5,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$4,000
COLUMBUS MUSEUM$4,000
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC$4,000
COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$3,000
DO GOOD FUND INC$3,000
THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM$3,000
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS$3,000
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$3,000
NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$3,000
COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 22 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+82%

Still filing today

45%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +74%
CM
COLUMBUS MUSEUM
8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +30%
CT
COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +1616%

Funded once

NI
NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue +26%
OD
OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue +82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Columbus Economic Development

Provide incentives and other support as well as the development of property for the economic benefit of the city of columbus and the surrounding area.

Community Improvement

Columbus Foundation

The columbus foundation is entrusted to improve the quality of life for all its residents.

Philanthropy

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra

Arts & Culture

Columbus Jewish Foundation

To ensure a supportive, engaged and vibrant future for the Jewish Community.

Philanthropy

The Columbus Museum

Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public

Arts & Culture

Columbus Pro Musica Inc

To provide the community with music, concerts, and music education.

Arts & Culture

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus

Promote the awareness of jazz music through its own professional jazz repertory orchestra.

Arts & Culture

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

Columbus Medical Research

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Columbus Capital Foundation Inc

The organization was established to support the heritage fund - the community foundation of bartholomew county, inc., the city of columbus and bartholomew county in indiana by preserving and maintaining land and buildings of historic or…

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Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Columbus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Springer Opera House Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

7/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,302,908Other$714,000Arts & Culture$93,500Education$45,000Environment$19,000Human Services$2,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of TheGA28.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 582079186 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Walter Alan Richards Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Walter Alan Richards Foundation?

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THE WALTER ALAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Walter Alan Richards Foundation?

More from the funding graph