Massachusetts · Private foundation
Josephine G Russell Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $406k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Josephine G Russell Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $406k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $469k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $475k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $492k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $419k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $451k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $441k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $437k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence General Hospital | $385,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lazarus House Inc | $310,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program Inc | $172,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Groundwork Lawrence Inc | $160,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Neighbors in Need Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc | $139,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partners in Child Development Inc | $108,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Brooks School | $108,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bread & Roses Inc | $101,500 | 7 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($986k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Josephine G Russell Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Josephine G Russell Trust
- How much does Josephine G Russell Trust give?
- Josephine G Russell Trust reported 38 grants totaling $406,125 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Josephine G Russell Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Josephine G Russell Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawrence General Hospital ($385k), Lazarus House Inc ($310k), Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program Inc ($172k).
- Does Josephine G Russell Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Josephine G Russell Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Josephine G Russell Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Artemas W Stearns Trust, Rogers Family Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Josephine G Russell Trust based?
- Josephine G Russell Trust is based in MA.
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