· Private foundation
Russell-Davidson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE COD | $500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHAMBER PLAYERS | $500 |
| CAPE REP THEATER | $500 |
| EVENTIDE THEATRE CO | $500 |
| PINE COBBLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- TPTHE PEABODY INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds PYAREO HOME 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Russell-Davidson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell-Davidson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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