· Private foundation
Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $29,500 |
| SOLANA BEACH PRESYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,750 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $1,041 |
| PACIFIC PALISADES CHURCH | $750 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY | $650 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $515 |
| CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES | $450 |
| WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT | $418 |
| Individual grant recipient | $256 |
| NATURE COLLECTIVE | $250 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $250 |
| SAN DIEGO RIVER CONSERVANCY | $208 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ESEVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +25% · 25% of their budget
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +19%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE - CHRIS COSTELLO GIVING FUNDone grant, 2022 · $9k
- USUC SAN DIEGOone grant, 2020 · $2k
- KBKINGDOM BUILDER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Evans School Foundation. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM BUILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Moms in Prayer Int'l ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds NosilenceNoviolence Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Perlmeter Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
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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