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Bangs-Russell Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx at a glance

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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.

$759k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$2.0MHousing & Shelter$800kEducation$612kPublic Safety & Disaster$490kHuman Services$475kHealth$425kReligion$319kFood & Nutrition$235kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRURY UNIVERSITY OF$100,000
T2T FOUNDATION$80,000
AMERICARES$70,000
MISSION HOUSE MINISTRIES$60,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$60,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$50,000
WORLD VISION$50,000
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$35,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$20,000
VIRGINIA PENINSULA REGIONAL JAIL$20,000
SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$18,500
GROTON CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 26 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
9

Total granted

$5.1M
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+151%

Still filing today

46%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +134%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +98%
  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • DU
    DRURY UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • DU
    DRURY UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
2
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
3
Restoringvision

To empower lives by restoring vision for millions of people in need.

Health
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
5
Floresta Usa Incorporated

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…

International
6
Sign Fracture Care International

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…

Health
7
Alight

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…

International
8
Eyecare for Humanity
—
9
Haiti Eye Mission

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…

Health
10
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
11
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

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.

Health
12
Vision for Africa
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $550,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $475,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMISSION HOUSE MINISTRIES: $410,000 · OtherMISSION HOUSE MINISTRIESAMERICAN RED CROSS: $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSDRURY UNIVERSITY OF: $250,000 · OtherDRURY UNIVERSITY OFT2T FOUNDATION: $240,000 · OtherT2T FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYGROTON CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $136,500 · OtherBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $120,000 · Other+13 more: $446,500 · Other+13 moreWORLD VISION INC: $377,600 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $370,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA …HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $240,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALCONVOY OF HOPE: $235,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPEAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $85,000 · International+3 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $600,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S…SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $170,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation: $95,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $40,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 · Human ServicesDrury University: $150,000 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF NEWPORT NEWS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $55,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,128,000International$1,542,600Religion$600,000Health$305,000Human Services$150,000Education$150,000Philanthropy$70,000Arts & Culture$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $600,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $550,000 over 6y, 98% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $377,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $370,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $240,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $235,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $170,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF NEWPORT NEWS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $55,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PEACE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Drury University ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bangs-Russell Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bangs-Russell Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home