· Private foundation
James B Russell Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLOW GLEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UGANDAN WATER PROJECT | $17,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS - KONA | $15,000 |
| VENISON DONATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| PURPOSE FARMING | $10,000 |
| YWAM ORLANDO | $9,000 |
| INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CAMPING ASSOCIA | $8,800 |
| RESCUE MISSION SYRACUSE | $8,000 |
| SONSET SOLUTIONS | $7,500 |
| CROSSBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $7,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +134%
- UWUgandan Water Project8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +276%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- RHRENOVATION HOUSE FOR WOMENone grant, 2017 · $30k
- RHRENOVATION HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JHJIAN HUA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -100%
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.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The organization's mission is to seek to cultivate christ's hope in underdeveloped and impoverished areas of the world through agricultural and personal transformation.
Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 110 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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James B Russell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James B Russell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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