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.

Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc

Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc

Q: Where is Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc based?

Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$106k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% 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

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$105,866

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RUSSELL'S GARDEN CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$105,866

02The need

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 (FY19–21, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$74k · 43 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 43 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$74k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+24%

Still filing today

56%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

PB
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +37%
SV
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +129%
OXFAM-AMERICA INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $600 · revenue +8%

Funded once

BW
BOSTON - WBUR
one grant, 2019 · $22k
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +24%
MH
MASS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2021 · $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.

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.

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

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

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bookfriends International Nfp. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

27/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$198,611Education$3,620International$3,350Environment$1,600Public Benefit$700Food & Nutrition$700Arts & Culture$400

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.

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 →

Open a dossier: Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Tides Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Network for Good

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's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell's Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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