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William R & Esther Richmond Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

William R & Esther Richmond Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$69kHuman Services$66kFood & Nutrition$49kArts & Culture$32kHealth$26kEducation$26kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$624k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC$8,412
COMMUNITY CHECK UP CENTER OF S$8,140
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART$8,000
TEMPLE BETH EL$5,000
HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST$1,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEALTHY STEPS DIAPER BANK: $8k → 12%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 9%For The Love Of A Veteran Inc: $8k → 9%YMCA of York and York County: $5k → 9%YMCA: $5k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $500 → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of William R & Esther Richmond Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 84%.

William R & Esther Richmond Fdnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$149k · 10 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$149k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+36%

Still filing today

70%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    2× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +54%
  • YF
    YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS
    3× · 2018–2022 · $19k · revenue +33%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • KL
    KELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • HF
    HOLIDAY FAMILY OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +14%
  • TV
    THE VISTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Centre County Youth Service Bureau

The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…

Human Services
2
Hunterdon County Ymca

We are a charitable service organization founded upon christian values, committed to hunterdon county and helping people grow in spirit, mind and body. we strengthen our community through youthdevelopment, healthy living and social…

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3
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
4
Feeding Pennsylvania

Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…

Philanthropy
5
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
6
Family Health Council of Central Pa Inc

The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.

Health
7
Harvest Food Pantry Inc

Catholic harvest food pantry welcomes all individuals and families who are in need of nourishing and healthy food and other essential items. we serve york county residents, with an emphasis on york city, central york and york suburban…

Food & Nutrition
8
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

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9
United Methodist Home for Children Inc

Provide a safe and caring program for youth that inspires hope for the future and stresses personal responsibility within an atmosphere of respect for everyone.

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10
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
11
Dalton Community Library

Public lending library

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12
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dauphin County Library System; the most unlike its peers is Equiteam Support Services. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH EL: $45,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELHADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST: $9,000 · OtherHADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONISTYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $8,012 · OtherYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMTHE HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FO: $7,500 · OtherTHE HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK: $4,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,500 · OtherNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART: $8,000 · OtherNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ARTLEAF PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,137 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA F…YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS: $18,976 · Food & NutritionYORK FRESH FOOD FARMSHOLIDAY FAMILY OUTREACH INC: $11,730 · Food & NutritionHOLIDAY FAMILY OUTREAC…NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $13,412 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRI…YMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSESFOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFOR THE LOVE OF A…HEALTHY STEPS DIAPER BANK: $7,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHY STEPS DIA…BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $2,520 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE IN…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Check Up Center of S: $8,140 · HealthJEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $5,000 · HealthEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $3,074 · HealthFARM OF HOPE INC: $3,000 · HealthVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $2,363 · HealthCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AT GRETNA INC: $6,064 · Arts & CulturePRIMA ARTS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EducationDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $5,000 · EducationPUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY: $5,000 · EducationKELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Religion
Other$102,512Food & Nutrition$55,843Human Services$41,932Health$21,577Arts & Culture$21,564Education$19,500Religion$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,137 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK FRESH FOOD FARMS: $18,976 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetKELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $13,412 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $8,012 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART: $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHEALTHY STEPS DIAPER BANK: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMUSIC AT GRETNA INC: $6,064 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEAF PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $3,074 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFARM OF HOPE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRIMA ARTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $2,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $2,363 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Foundation for En…Anne & Philip Glatfel…The Donald B and Doro…United Way of the Cap…John Crain Kunkel Fou…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…York County Community…Pennsylvania Automoti…Alexander and Jane Bo…Airie Knipel Harry V …Community Aid IncThe Dorothy B and S L…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Community Aid Inc · The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William R & Esther Richmond Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William R & Esther Richmond Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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