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Josephine S Russell Charitable at a glance

· Private foundation

Josephine S Russell Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$611k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$74k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$833kEducation$528kYouth Development$344kCrime & Legal$300kHousing & Shelter$249kRecreation & Sports$189kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $194k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS$74,000
CENTRAL CLINIC INC$65,000
CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE$55,000
GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION$40,000
SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES$40,000
CARACOLE INC$35,000
CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION$25,000
EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS INC$25,000
AXIS TEEN CENTERS$25,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE INC$24,458
SEW VALLEY$24,000
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE$23,942
NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY INC$20,000
CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC$20,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLACK ACHIEVERS: $20k → 13%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $22k → 6%LIFELINE INC: $5k → 14%BLACK ACHIEVERS: $20k → 13%HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $15k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $5k → 12%HOLLY HILL CHILDRENS HOME INC: $30k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $25k → 16%REFUGEECONNECT: $5k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS INC: $50k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS INC: $25k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CINCINATTI: $21k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $15k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $15k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $10k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $40k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 16%DRUG FREE CLUBS OF AMERICA: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $20k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH TENNIS OPPORTUNITIES: $15k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH TENNIS OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $10k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $10k → 16%ST JOSEPH INFANT & MATERNITY HOME: $9k → 16%THE RESIDENT HOME CORPORATION: $25k → 16%CHILD FOCUS INC: $39k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD: $50k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD: $42k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
AZ
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 49 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
123

Total granted

$2.5M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
    3× · 2018–2025 · $234k · revenue +2%
  • LA
    Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
    3× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +56%
  • CF
    Cancer Family Care Inc
    4× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Cincinnati
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -3%
  • CC
    CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -54%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
2
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
3
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…

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4
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
5
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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6
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
8
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
9
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
10
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
11
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
12
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center; the most unlike its peers is Healthy Beginnings Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 189 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/144
Grantees still filing
93/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $155,000 · OtherLegal Aid Society of CincinnatiCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $155,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CH…CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100,401 · OtherBrighton Center Inc: $100,000 · Other+97 more: $2,210,943 · Other+97 moreCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $234,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Instit…CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM…ISPACE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureISPACE INCCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF AR…Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Chambe…The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $53,750 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ba…Cincinnati Opera Association Inc: $38,919 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $231,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC: $92,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE C…Every Child Succeeds: $75,000 · Human ServicesEvery Child Suc…Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $40,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesChild Focus: $39,117 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $33,279 · Human ServicesCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $30,000 · Human ServicesHolly Hill Children's Home Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+15 more: $259,793 · Human Services+15 moreThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 · HealthThe Chris…Cancer Family Care Inc: $94,458 · HealthCancer Fa…HEALTH CARE ACCESS NOW: $30,000 · HealthHEALTH CA…SAVE A WARRIOR INC: $30,000 · HealthSAVE A WA…ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $25,000 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $25,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $20,000 · HealthTHE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 · HealthMILESTONES INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $19,500 · HealthNAMI OF SOUTHWEST OHIO: $18,800 · Health+6 more: $59,000 · Health+6 moreCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $73,942 · EducationMindPeace Cincinnati: $70,000 · EducationThe Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences: $45,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE CHATFIELD EDGE: $35,000 · EducationSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $32,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION: $30,000 · EducationMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $15,312 · EducationUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $125,000 · PhilanthropyCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $80,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,721 · PhilanthropyENVISION CHILDREN: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD TRAINING: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentAxis Teen Centers: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPSPRING: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentSURVIVE & THRIVE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHOLE AGAIN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,721,344Arts & Culture$892,669Human Services$759,189Health$486,758Education$366,254Philanthropy$209,721Youth Development$192,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $234,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $94,458 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC: $92,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $84,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $73,942 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMindPeace Cincinnati: $70,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProKids: $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISPACE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Kentucky: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $55,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $53,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY BEGINNINGS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetThe Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $40,650 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetENVISION CHILDREN: $40,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Focus: $39,117 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Opera Association Inc: $38,919 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHATFIELD EDGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD TRAINING: $35,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCINCINNATI EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $33,279 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORY INC: $33,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION: $30,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS NOW: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

John a Schroth Family…Andrew Jergens Founda…The Greater Cincinnat…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Charles H Dater Found…Pfau Charitable Found…Jack J Smith Jr Chari…The Thomas J Emery Me…Millstone FundSutphin Family Founda…Louise Taft Semple Fo…
John a Schroth Family Char TrPA131.9× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Josephine S Russell Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josephine S Russell Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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