· Private foundation
Josephine G Russell Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k22 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $35,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE WORLD INC | $25,000 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $20,000 |
| GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $15,000 |
| BLESSED STEPHEN BELLESINI OSA ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
70 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 33 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
Lawrence General Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +33%
LAZARUS HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +14%- GLGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CICLASS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +2%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE INC (YOUTH DEVELOPMENT)one grant, 2023 · $8k
- FSFAMILY SERVICE INC (ARISE LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM)one grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Daycare services
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Our mission is to work to achieve social and economic justice by empowering low to moderate income populations in lawrence, ma through shared values of inclusiveness and collaboration to reclaim a voice for lawrence and advocate…
Assist people with disabilities
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…
Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 77 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 Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities Together Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INROADS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede 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: Artemas W Stearns Trust · Rogers Family Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Charles G Pringle Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc
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 Josephine G Russell Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Communities Together Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence 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.
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