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Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$385kInternational$375kReligion$345kArts & Culture$204kSocial Science$186kFood & Nutrition$154kCivil Rights$119kPhilanthropy$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $187k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (KASTORIA MONUMENT PROJECT)$90,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (FOR THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI)$23,000
THE SEPHARDIC TEMPLE$16,950
COLEL CHABAD$15,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$12,500
ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF GREEK JEWRY-ERAN$12,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$9,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$9,000
GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION$8,000
AJC (THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THESSALONIKI)$7,500
GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TURKISH JEWRY$5,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $13k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD LABANIM INC: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%Zaka Search and Rescue: $10k → 10%JESPY House: $2k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 9%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $4k → 10%American National Red Cross: $2k → 9%Israel Magen Fund: $4k → 10%AFYA Foundation: $2k → 7%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $3k → 10%World Food Program: $1k → 14%Israel Magen Fund: $3k → 10%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND: $3k → 10%Israel Magen Fund: $3k → 10%Israel Magen Fund: $3k → 10%Zaka Search and Rescue: $2k → 10%American National Red Cross: $2k → 14%Helen Keller Services: $5k → 20%The Lustgarten Foundation: $5k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $5k → 6%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $3k → 14%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%World Food Program USA: $2k → 14%World Food Program: $1k → 14%Paper Fig Foundation: $350 → 17%American Friendsa of Beit Issie Shapiro: $5k → 17%American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro: $5k → 17%Americn Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro: $1k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 87 repeat orgs$769k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
131

Total granted

$1.5M
$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +115%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +252%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of Wingate Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $80k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WINGATE INS
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • JF
    Jewish Federations of North America - Israel Giving Grants
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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.

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
12
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tupelo Press 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

103 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. 103 of the 241 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/103
Grantees still filing
71/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLEL CHABAD: $125,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADSEPHARDIC TEMPLE - CONGREGATION EMETH VESHALOM: $112,055 · OtherSEPHARDIC TEMPLE - CONGREGATION EMETH VESHALOMAmerican Friends of the Wingate Institute: $105,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of the Wingate InstituteAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (KASTORIA MONUMENT PROJECT): $90,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (KASTORIA MONUMENT PROJECT)American Friends of Wingate Institute: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Wingate InstituteAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WINGATE INS: $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WINGATE INS+124 more: $763,293 · Other+124 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $90,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISR…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $73,280 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $47,300 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS O…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,550 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $13,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,625 · International+14 more: $70,815 · International+14 moreGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · HealthGLOBAL LY…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $43,100 · HealthST JUDE C…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $28,000 · HealthTHE SHRIN…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $18,000 · HealthTHE MICHA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $7,900 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,500 · Health+9 more: $27,850 · Health+9 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $45,400 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $36,500 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $6,530 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 · Human ServicesHelen Keller Services: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TURKISH JEWRY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,400 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureJewish Partisan Education Foundation: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $39,500 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $37,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $9,500 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $6,500 · Food & NutritionGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $26,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $9,300 · PhilanthropyLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,730 · Philanthropy+4 more: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,350,348International$375,670Health$191,350Human Services$135,930Arts & Culture$103,900Food & Nutrition$92,500Philanthropy$80,030

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $73,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $47,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $45,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $43,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $39,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $36,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $26,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION: $25,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TURKISH JEWRY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $13,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES: $12,795 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $11,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $9,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC JEWISH BROTHERHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $9,200 over 2y, 13% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $8,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $7,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,555 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $6,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $6,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF GREECE: $5,400 over 3y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TURKISH JEWRY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundIranian American Jewi…Jewish Community Foun…Colegato FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Belz FoundationThe Setton FoundationJewish Community Fede…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY29× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Tupelo Press Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Maurice and Lena Russo Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 241 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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