· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 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 Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Earl Richards Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Earl Richards Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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