Virginia · Nonprofit
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,755 to it, the largest being T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION ($468,168). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $440k
What Richmond Friends of the Homeless Ltd does
Mission
To serve the homeless and underprivileged utilizing the services of 1,000+ volunteers. Meals are served five days a week at two separate locations. Boxed lunches are served on weekends at a third location. Other services include collecting and distributing clothing, blankets, shoes, personal hygience and other items. There are special programs for families with emergency needs. An emphasis is placed on serving children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our largest program is to provide food. Meals are served seven days a week. Nutritious meals are served monday through friday at two locations. Boxed lunches are served on weekends at a third separate and different location. Over 3,000 meals are served each week. While our primary purpose is the alleviation of hunger, there is also a benefit from involving such a large number of volunteers from churces, synagogues, businesses, and neighborhood and other groups. Each of these groups prepare and serve meals. Typically, a group will be responsible for a specific day (eg. The first monday of every month). Besides serving daily meals to large groups, the program provides food baskets to families in temporary crisis situations.
$1,269,794 spent71% of program spendingOur second largest program provides clothing, blankets, shoes, and other comparable items. There are coat and clothing drives at specific times of the year. Additionally, items (especially clothing) come in regularly and are distributed on a daily basis. The groups bringing food on their scheduled day will often do more than food by bringing clothing and other needed items. These include warm winter items, clothing, shoes, sleeping bags, toiletries, and other items which bring comfort to our guests.
$391,282 spent22% of program spendingWhile our family and children's program is our third largest program as measured by expenditures, we feel in many ways that it is our most important. Services include mentoring, providing school supplies and book bags (both at back to school time and as needed), funds for field trips and graduation activities, and associated expenses for at risk children. We monitor progress in school and try to reward good grades and progress with a trip to mcdonald's or something similar. If we find a child with attendance issues it may be as simple as they aren't getting up in the morning and we do something equally as simple - providing an alarm clock. At times this has helped. Food is also provided through family shopping trips and classes on nutrition are held. Special attention is paid to graduating high school seniors - assisting them with fees for cap and gown, pictures, prom and senior trips. We address their needs as they enter college or trade school.
$116,153 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,777,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $231k to $326k (+41%).
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.
98% of RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Andy Little
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $24k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD’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.
How concentrated its funding is
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 93% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $984k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD?
- RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,755 to it, the largest being T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION ($468,168). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $983,755 in grants to RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD?
- T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $468,168 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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