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Ronnie H and Alli Russel Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of RONNIE H AND ALLI RUSSEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
$9,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC$40,000
PEARLSTONE CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$9,000
TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
CHAI LIFELINE$1,800
HILLELS OF GEORGIA$1,800
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 10 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-17%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $66k · revenue +16%
  • JM
    JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +105%
  • EA
    EDWARD A MYERBERG SENIOR CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • PR
    PEARLSTONE RETREAT CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • TC
    THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%

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
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

2
Rutgers Hillel Corporation

Rutgers hillel is dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all jewish college students, where they are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually and socially. the organization helps students find a balance in…

3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
6
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

10
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION — $625,000 · OtherBETH TFILOH CONGREGATIONORT AMERICA INC — $66,000 · OtherORT AMERICA INCTOWSON UNIVERSITY HILLEL — $57,500 · OtherTOWSON UNIVERSITY HILLELPEARLSTONE CENTER — $50,000 · OtherPEARLSTONE CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · Other+6 more — $52,365 · Other+6 moreTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $330,167 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNIT…Trustees of Tufts College — $9,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $5,000 · EducationJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $2,500 · ReligionCHAI LIFELINE INC — $1,800 · Health
Other$880,865Philanthropy$330,167Education$14,000Arts & Culture$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Human Services$2,500Religion$2,500Health$1,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $330,167 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc — $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD A MYERBERG SENIOR CENTER INC — $2,165 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Jerome G & Annette S Zimmerman Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ronnie H and Alli Russel Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc1% of income from government
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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Find your warmest path to Ronnie H and Alli Russel Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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