Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Josephine S Russell Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $611k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $74,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Josephine S Russell Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k 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 | 27 | $611k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $600k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $738k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $679k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $596k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $533k | 79% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $685k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $577k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $234,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Addiction Treatment F/K/A the Center for Chemical Addictions | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Christ Hospital | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brighton Center Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cancer Family Care Inc | $94,458 | 4 | 2% |
| Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc | $92,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northern Kentucky Symphony | $84,500 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 147 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Josephine S Russell Charitable supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Millstone Fund · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Louise Taft Semple Foundation
How this is measured
About Josephine S Russell Charitable
- How much does Josephine S Russell Charitable give?
- Josephine S Russell Charitable reported 27 grants totaling $610,759 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Josephine S Russell Charitable fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Josephine S Russell Charitable's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($234k), Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ($155k), Center for Addiction Treatment F/K/A the Center for Chemical Addictions ($155k).
- Does Josephine S Russell Charitable fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Josephine S Russell Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Josephine S Russell Charitable?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Andrew Jergens Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is Josephine S Russell Charitable based?
- Josephine S Russell Charitable is based in PA.
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