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Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 at a glance

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Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $1k → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $500 → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $450 → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $200 → 12%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $200 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST: $100 → 11%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

MN
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
TN
NC
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 20 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$209k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-2%

Still filing today

55%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • ES
    EVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +25% · 25% of their budget
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +19%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE - CHRIS COSTELLO GIVING FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • KB
    KINGDOM BUILDER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -55%
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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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
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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6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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7
United States Naval Institute

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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8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
10
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLANA BEACH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $40,550 · OtherSOLANA BEACH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHEVAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $29,500 · OtherEVAN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONSOLANA BEACH PRESYTERIAN CHRUCH GENERAL FUND: $25,750 · OtherSOLANA BEACH PRESYTERIAN CHRUCH GENERAL FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - CHRIS COSTELLO GIVING FUND: $9,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - CHRIS COSTELLO GIVING FUNDST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $4,500 · Other+33 more: $18,009 · Other+33 moreEVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $60,665 · EducationEVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONTrustees of Tufts College: $6,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $2,740 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $35,265 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESCU…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $9,000 · ReligionCommunity Bible Study: $3,100 · ReligionKINGDOM BUILDER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · ReligionMoms in Prayer Int'l: $750 · ReligionFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $4,787 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $4,471 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $2,150 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1,226 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human Services
Other$127,309Education$69,655Housing & Shelter$35,265Religion$13,850International$9,508Community Improvement$5,000Human Services$3,476

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 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 budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $206 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
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.

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 Foundat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…French Fund Samuel Ka…The Nordson Corporati…Sempra FoundationPerlmeter Family Foun…Coastal Community Fou…David C Copley Founda…Leichtag FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Ayco Charitable F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Sudbury Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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, 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 Russell & Costello Family Foundation Inc # 0736264 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 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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