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Russell-Davidson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT VERNON VIRTUOSI | $100,000 |
| SAINT BANI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PYAREO HOME | $1,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES | $1,000 |
| PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP | $500 |
| PINE COBBLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE COD | $500 |
| CAPE REP THEATER | $500 |
| EVENTIDE THEATRE CO | $500 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHAMBER PLAYERS | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MVMount Vernon Virtuosi Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $142k · revenue +149% · 38% of their budget
- SBSANT BANI SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +83%
- AOACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $21k
- MHMEETING HOUSE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +62%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +31%
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
The cape cod center for the arts fosters creativity, enriches lives, and nurtures learning by providing exceptional cultural and artistic experiences. with a focus on live theatre, cinematic arts, education, and horticulture, it thrives…
Cape cod academy cultivates academic excellence and fosters a passion for life-long learning. our nurturing k-12 community is deeply rooted in our core values of scholarship, integrity, compassion, and respect. empowered by meaningful…
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
The organization's main mission is to develop compassionate solutions to homelessness problems for families especially those with children living in harwich and the surrounding communities of cape cod.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The seacoast charter school is a publicly funded elementary and middle school, uniquely focused on experiencing education through the arts.
To serve the entire cape community and visitors to the area by offering instruction, entertainment, and exhibition in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pyareo Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 Mount Vernon Virtuosi Inc ↗
- Who funds SANT BANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PYAREO HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEETING HOUSE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 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: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc
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-Davidson Foundation 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Academy of Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Pine Cobble School Incorporated — 0% 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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