California · Private foundation
Russ Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $95k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $538k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Russ Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 10 | $70k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $92k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $119k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $137k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $48,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $32,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Elnet | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Graduate Student Initiative | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Algemeiner Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Israel of North Beverly Hills | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russ 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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Russ Family Foundation
- How much does Russ Family Foundation give?
- Russ Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $95,455 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Russ Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (73%), Health (8%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Russ Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($200k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($49k), Israel Emergency Alliance ($33k).
- Does Russ Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russ Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russ Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Russ Family Foundation based?
- Russ Family Foundation is based in CA.
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