New York · Private foundation
Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $371k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 66 | $365k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $396k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 96 | $383k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $354k | 66% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $337k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $309k | 91% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colel Chabad | $125,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Sephardic Temple - Congregation Emeth Veshalom | $112,055 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $47,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $45,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $43,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $39,500 | 5 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $37,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | $36,500 | 6 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 127 recipients with no EIN on record ($960k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Colegato Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Belz Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation
- How much does Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation give?
- Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $371,392 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), International (16%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Colel Chabad ($125k), Sephardic Temple - Congregation Emeth Veshalom ($112k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($90k).
- Does Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York Inc, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ.
- Where is Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation based?
- Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation is based in NY.
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