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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
AXIS TEEN CENTERS$25,000
EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS INC$25,000
CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION$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
HEALTHY VISIONS$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your 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 your 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
AZ
NC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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

+23%
+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

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

  • 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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…

—
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Residential CareChristian Missionary Organi…Community Development Organ…Community Health CentersEducation Scholarships & Gr…Performing Arts Organizatio…Animal Shelter and RescueEmergency Assistance & Food…Behavioral Health ServicesCemetery and Burial ServicesCincinnati Museums & Cultur…Pregnancy Support ServicesSubstance Abuse Recovery Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr15%35%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/147
the rest of the field
13%
970/7,506

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.

04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 189 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/144
Grantees still filing
94/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $155,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CH…Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati — $155,000 · OtherLegal Aid Society of CincinnatiCINCINNATI 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 ServicesBLACK ACHIEVERS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $40,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesChild Focus — $39,117 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $33,279 · Human ServicesHolly Hill Children's Home Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $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…SAVE A WARRIOR INC — $30,000 · HealthSAVE A WA…HEALTH CARE ACCESS NOW — $30,000 · HealthHEALTH CA…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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $234,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati — $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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 budgetProKids — $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate — $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY BEGINNINGS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 5.6% 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 budgetTeach for America Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVISION CHILDREN — $40,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBLACK ACHIEVERS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChild Focus — $39,117 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Opera Association Inc — $38,919 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD TRAINING — $35,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCINCINNATI EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHATFIELD EDGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetBethany House Services Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHolly Hill Children's Home Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHY VISIONS — $30,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 S Russell Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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