· Private foundation
W Earl Richards Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of W EARL RICHARDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $383k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS | $950,000 |
| THE SIGNATRY A GLOBAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SECOND WIND PROGRAMS INC | $125,000 |
| VAPOR INTERNATIONAL | $103,480 |
| GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $55,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EQUIP LEADERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| UNION UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE WELLHOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| CHRIST HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| MILO'S FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $1,500 |
| CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGH | $912 |
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 (FY17–24, $911k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- VMVapor Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $735k · revenue +275%
- SWSecond Wind Programs Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +123%
- ELEQUIP Leadership Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- BTBOK TOWER GARDENS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
- FCFAYETTE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOOSTERSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- N(NEVERTHIRST (COMPASSION OUTREACH MINISTRIES)one grant, 2021 · $5k
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 Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tipping Point Community and the most unlike its peers is Milos Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Second Wind Programs Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUIP Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds MILOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Christ Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON PARTNERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TRIVELA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools 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: Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Chattanooga Christian Community 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 W Earl Richards Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% 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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