· Private foundation
Josephine G Russell Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $20,000 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BLESSED STEPHEN BELLESINI OSA ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Lawrence General Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +47%
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
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.
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
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 77 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Josephine G Russell Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josephine G Russell Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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