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Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$105,866
Largest grant, FY2023
$105,866
Organizations funded a year
1 to 43
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
InternationalEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY20231$106k100%
FY202134$7k9%
FY202032$4k34%
FY201928$27k39%
FY201843$33k67%
FY201728$31kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$107kArts & Culture$80kEducation$7kInternational$3kHuman Services$3kEnvironment$3kPublic Benefit$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
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IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
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VA
MD
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Phillips Brooks House Association Inc$1,50030%
Trustees of Boston University$1,50010%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc$1,20020%
Wayland Public Schools Foundation Inc$90040%
Oxfam-America Inc$60030%
Oglala Lakota College$60050%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$60030%
Lotts Creek Community School$52040%
Western College Alumnae Association Inc$5001n/a
Government Accountability Project$50040%
American Farmland Trust$50030%
Operation California Inc$45030%
Winsor Music Inc$40040%
Madre Inc$40040%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$3002n/a
Freedom From Hunger$30020%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$25040%
About Face Veterans Against the War$20040%
The Center for Victims of Torture$20020%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$20030%
Center for American Progress$20010%
Project H O P E Inc$2002n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$20020%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$20020%
Wayland High School Scholarship Fund Committee$2001n/a
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$20020%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$20020%
Drug Policy Alliance$15030%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$15030%
El Porvenir$15010%
Unitarian Universalist Association$1001n/a
Finca International Inc$10010%
United States Association for UNHCR$10010%
Bookfriends International NFP$1001n/a
Wayland Historical Society Inc$1001n/a
Sterling College$10010%
Nisgua$1001n/a
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc$10010%
The Trustees of Reservations$10010%
American Kidney Fund Inc$10020%
Native Plant Trust Inc$1001n/a
St Josephs Indian School$751n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5010%
Buddy Dog Humane Society Inc$5010%
The Salvation Army$501n/a

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($194k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhillips Brooks House Association Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSudbury Valley Trustees Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayland Public Schools Foundation Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOglala Lakota College: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLotts Creek Community School: $520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Farmland Trust: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation California Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWinsor Music Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMadre Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom From Hunger: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbout Face Veterans Against the War: $200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Victims of Torture: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEl Porvenir: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSterling College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Massachusetts Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuddy Dog Humane Society Inc: $50 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 34.

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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.

Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard TrusteeMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $105,866 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (51%), Arts & Culture (38%), Education (3%).
Who are Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Phillips Brooks House Association Inc ($2k), Trustees of Boston University ($2k), Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc ($1k).
Does Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee, Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc 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 84 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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