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Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$29,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$285k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$49k50%
FY202412$52k25%
FY202318$44k33%
FY202221$34k52%
FY202118$41k61%
FY202012$39kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$105kReligion$73kHousing & Shelter$38kInternational$19kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Evans School Foundation$60,665325%
Solana Beach Presbyterian Church$40,5504n/a
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc$35,26550%
Samaritan's Purse$9,00060%
Trustees of Tufts College$6,00020%
Floresta USA Incorporated$4,78730%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc$4,5003n/a
Compassion International Incorporated$4,4716n/a
Community Bible Study$3,10060%
Women's Empowerment$2,74040%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEvans School Foundation: $60,665 over 3y, 25% of budgetSan Diego Rescue Mission Inc: $35,265 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFloresta USA Incorporated: $4,787 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Empowerment: $2,740 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc: $2,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resource Center: $1,226 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNature Collective: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKingdom Builder Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMoms in Prayer Int'l: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Center for the Arts Escondido Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNosilenceNoviolence Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $306 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Dieguito River Valley Land Conservancy: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSudbury Historical Society Inc: $175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAuthoracare Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Benno Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the North Coast: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCri-Help Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The San Diego FoundationCA24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264?

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About Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264

How much does Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 give?
Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 reported 18 grants totaling $48,536 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Religion (28%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Evans School Foundation ($61k), Solana Beach Presbyterian Church ($41k), San Diego Rescue Mission Inc ($35k).
Does Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
Where is Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 based?
Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 is based in MA.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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