Texas · Private foundation
Russell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Russell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $114k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $106k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $94k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $119k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $97k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $71k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $67k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mi Escuelita Preschool Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Girlstart | $57,500 | 6 | 1% |
| C5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Readers 2 Leaders | $28,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Shelterbox USA Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 29 Acres Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Grant Halliburton Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Design Connect Create | $17,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Youth Equipped to Succeed | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Rise Adventures Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russell Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Elizabeth Toon Charities · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Capital for Kids · Dallas Stars Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Russell Foundation
- How much does Russell Foundation give?
- Russell Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Russell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Education (21%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Russell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mi Escuelita Preschool Inc ($68k), Girlstart ($58k), C5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc ($50k).
- Does Russell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, The Rees-Jones Foundation.
- Where is Russell Foundation based?
- Russell Foundation is based in TX.
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