How much did B DON & BECKY RUSSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of B DON & BECKY RUSSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

facebook

2020

lanechristianmedical

2021

hopechildrensmissionschristianscholarshipmedicalmuseum

2022

tamumissionsmedical

2023

tamu

2024

tamu

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $36k
$10k–50k6 grants · $91k

$3,213

Median grant

States reached

$389k

Total assets

Largest grants

REBECCA'S WISH PANCREATIC FOUNDATION$26,136
STILL CREEK RANCH$16,000
UNLIMITED POTENTIAL$15,100
TAMU FOUNDATION$12,500
SARC$11,030
GEROGE BUSH FOUNDATION$10,000
ALL THE WORLD MISSION$6,000
ALEXANDER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,200
HANDS OF FREEDOM$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY$5,000
THE REACH PROJECT$5,000
THE ARTS COUNSIL$3,213
TAMU OPAS$2,500
MONUMENTS MEN & WOMEN FOUNDATION$1,296
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M$1,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$907k · 47 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$907k

$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+17%

Still filing today

23%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

UP
UNLIMITED POTENTIAL
4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +397% · 51% of their budget
TA
THE ARTS COUNCIL
4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +46%
BV
BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK
3× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +46%

Funded once

FF
FUN FOR ALL PLAYGROUND AT CENTRAL PARK
one grant, 2019 · $20k
LP
LIBERIAN POVERTY HOUSING
one grant, 2017 · $14k
PH
PURE HOPE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +390%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Houston Christian Foundation dba

Houston Christian Foundation (HCF), an affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), was created to facilitate Christian giving by offering the convenience and efficiency of donor-advised funds through NCF. HCF provides educational…

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Community Foundation of Brazoria County

The charitable purpose of the community foundation of brazoria county (cfbc) is to build permanent funds for the benefit of the community, to respond to change needs through effective grantmaking and to encourage philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley

The mission of the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley is to provide a child-centered, hands-on, interactive environment for learning and discovery.

Arts & Culture

Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

Baylor University Medical Center

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Dallas/Fort Worth twelve county region since 1903.

Health

Texas a&M Foundation

Fundraising and asset management for the benefit of texas a&m university at college station.

Education

Bosque School

Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…

Education

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.

Environment

Baylor Health Care System

Faith based supporting organization providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities that provide patient care, medical education, medical research and community services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Network for Good and the most unlike its peers is Lubbock Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,777

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

19/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$698,655Human Services$202,300Arts & Culture$65,588Food & Nutrition$46,029Housing & Shelter$20,000International$16,150Philanthropy$13,270

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Winkler Nina Astin TrustMO20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation B DON & BECKY RUSSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNLIMITED POTENTIAL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825498047 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNLIMITED POTENTIAL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 51% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat?

Find your warmest path to B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

B DON & BECKY RUSSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat?

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B DON & BECKY RUSSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat?

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