· Private foundation
Bangs-Russell Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRURY UNIVERSITY OF | $100,000 |
| T2T FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| AMERICARES | $70,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| MISSION HOUSE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $50,000 |
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $35,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA PENINSULA REGIONAL JAIL | $20,000 |
| SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $18,500 |
| EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +134%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +98%- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DUDRURY UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2020 · $75k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $50k
- DUDRURY UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach
To empower lives by restoring vision for millions of people in need.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Curing and preventing blindness: haiti eye mission is the only eye care team that travels to certain regions of the island of hispaniola with annual mission trips to fight preventable and treat curable blindness. the team provides eye…
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Through Music Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NEWPORT NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Bangs-Russell Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.