· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY | $5,000 |
| HANDS OF FREEDOM | $5,000 |
| THE REACH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE ARTS COUNSIL | $3,213 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MONUMENTS MEN & WOMEN FOUNDATION | $1,296 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UPUnlimited Potential Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $151k · revenue +397% · 51% of their budget
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +44%
- HOHands of Freedom4× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- FFFUN FOR ALL PLAYGROUND AT CENTRAL PARKone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $14k
- PHPURE HOPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
See Disclosure Above.
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The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The baylor oral health foundation was established to foster and support the activities and program of the texas a&m university college of dentistry (the college) to provide financial support for excellence at the college, and to advance…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 136 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Unlimited Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds REBECCA'S WISH ↗
- Who funds MERCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Hands of Freedom ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Reach Project ↗
- Who funds PURE HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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