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Anne S Richardson Fund XXXXX3004

Chicago, IL · EIN 13-6192516. Reported 84 grants totalling $2,670,000 to 36 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$2,670,000granted, 2021-2024
36recipients, as named on its returns
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$17.6Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Anne S Richardson Fund XXXXX3004 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
36 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
23 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Planned Parenthood of Southern New EnglandNew Haven, CT$290,000442024
Boys and Girls Club of RidgefieldRidgefield, CT$250,000442024
Act of Connecticut Inc ActRidgefield, CT$145,000332023
St Stephens Episcopal ChurchRidgefield, CT$140,000222024
Visiting Nurse Association of Ridgefield IncRidgefield, CT$130,000332024
Womens Business Development Council IncCt, CT$120,000332024
Saint Stephens Episcopal ChurchRidgefield, CT$115,000222022
Audubon ConnecticutGreenwich, CT$100,000222022
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum IncRidgefield, CT$100,000222023
New York Presbyterian Fund IncNew York, NY$95,000442024
Pro Bono Partnership IncWhite Plains, NY$80,000222022
The Ridgefield Library and Historic AssociationRidgefield, CT$80,000222024
Trust for Public LandCt, CT$80,000222024
Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and theRidgefield, CT$75,000112024
Ms President US IncRidgefield, CT$70,000442024
Mamanasco Lake Improvement Fund IncRidgefield, CT$65,000332024
Connecticut CollegeNew London, CT$60,000442024
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNy, NY$60,000442024
Norwalk Hospital AssociationNorwalk, CT$60,000442024
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$60,000442024
Connecticut Zoological SocietyBridgeport, CT$50,000222023
Founders Hall Foundation IncRidgefield, CT$50,000222023
Keeler Tavern Museum RidgefieldRidgefield, CT$50,000112023
Keeler Tavern Preservation Society IncRidgefield, CT$50,000112022
Ridgefield Historical SocietyRidgefield, CT$50,000222024
Mill River Collaborative IncCt, CT$40,000112022
Aging in America IncBronx, NY$30,000222022
The Rowan Center IncStamford, CT$30,000222023
Triangle Community Center IncNorwalk, CT$25,000112024
Domestic Violence Crisis CenterStamford, CT$20,000112022
First Congregational Church of RidgefieldRidgefield, CT$20,000442024
Hall Neighborhood House IncBridgeport, CT$20,000112021
Meals on Wheels IncCt, CT$20,000222024
Ridgefield Theater Barn RidgefieldRidgefield, CT$20,000112021
Ridgefield Guild of ArtistsRidgefield, CT$10,000112023
Stepping Stones Museum for Children IncNorwalk, CT$10,000112023

26 of 36 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Health Care
12 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Youth Development
8 grants
Education
7 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Environment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$665,000$20,000
202222$710,000$32,500
202320$610,000$20,000
202419$685,000$30,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

90% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Connecticut
$2.4M
New York
$265K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund21 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program14 shared recipientsFairfield County's Community Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Anne S Richardson Fund XXXXX3004's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 10 S Dearborn IL1-0111, Chicago, IL, 60603. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-6192516 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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