California · Nonprofit
RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH
RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,757 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,757). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Richards Institute of Education Research does
Mission
Offering a refreshingly different way to approach learning, education through music (etm) frees adults to teach and parent in accordance with the joyful nature of children. Through song and play, etm provides a gateway for contemporary understanding of learning, motivation, child theory and cognative development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The richards institute conducts courses for teachers, music educators, parents, speech and language pathologists, psychologists, pediatricans, and other professionals in education in several states across the country. These winter and summer courses reach approximately 550 adults every year, affecting the lives of thousands of children in the areas of emotional stabilization, cognitive functioning, enhanced language skills, and increased movement and sensory-motor awareness. These are achieved through play and aesthetic experience in the education through music song experiences.
$117,016 spentof which $3,600 as grants$125,264 earned by the program78% of program spendingThe richards institute conducts week-long summer integrated arts day camp (song/play, visual art, storytelling and creation) aimed at sponsoring the emergent imagination - and thus the intelligence, according to narcosynthesis - which include any number of at-risk and special needs populations drawn from various geographic locales (california), diverse northern/central european immigrant), diverse socio-economic settings for up to 400 persons per summer. Grant monies for participants are applied directly to the participants through no third-party intermediary.
$33,233 spentof which $4,879 as grants$31,315 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $150,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $87k to $211k (+143%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 24% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $381 → $343.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH?
- RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,757 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,757). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,757 in grants to RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,757 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHARDS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing