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B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$127k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,213
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,136
Organizations funded a year
21 to 44
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$389k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$122k27%
FY202321$73k43%
FY202236$282k42%
FY202144$275k64%
FY202033$97k61%
FY201926$77k62%
FY201823$69k65%
FY201724$51kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$172kReligion$160kHealth$130kArts & Culture$116kRecreation & Sports$102kInternational$78kPhilanthropy$59kEducation$51kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unlimited Potential Inc$151,300551%
A & M Church of Christ$98,6807n/a
Rebecca's Wish$62,14176%
Mercy Project Inc$51,00043%
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc$46,02930%
Hands of Freedom$15,50042%
The Reach Project$10,00022%
Pure Hope Foundation$10,00011%
Twin City Mission$9,74120%
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History$7,75021%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnlimited Potential Inc: $151,300 over 5y, 51% of budgetRebecca's Wish: $62,141 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetMercy Project Inc: $51,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBrazos Valley Food Bank Inc: $46,029 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHands of Freedom: $15,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetThe Reach Project: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPure Hope Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTwin City Mission: $9,741 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrazos Valley Museum of Natural History: $7,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Chamber Music: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBrazos Valley Rehabilitation Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBo's Place: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMonuments Men and Women Foundation: $1,296 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLubbock Christian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Bakersfield Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Relief Fund: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Academy of Sciences: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George W Bush Foundation: $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp of the Hills: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Station ISD Education Foundation Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheriffs Association of Texas: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tau Beta Pi Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Winkler Nina Astin TrustMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat

How much does B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat give?
B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat reported 23 grants totaling $126,638 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Religion (15%), Health (12%).
Who are B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Unlimited Potential Inc ($151k), A & M Church of Christ ($99k), Rebecca's Wish ($62k).
Does B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Winkler Nina Astin Trust, Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust, Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust.
Where is B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat based?
B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat is based in TX.

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 136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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