New York · Private foundation
Russell Sage Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 171
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $34,920
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $199,096
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $467M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Russell Sage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $932k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 77 | $5.7M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $5.1M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $4.8M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $6.0M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $5.2M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $4.2M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $3.5M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $2,240,092 | 8 | 98% |
| New York University | $1,650,448 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $1,129,998 | 8 | 0% |
| Duke University | $992,726 | 7 | 0% |
| University of California- Davis | $824,543 | 8 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $725,930 | 8 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $678,914 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $670,580 | 4 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $591,844 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $576,694 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Russell Sage Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Russell Sage Foundation
- How much does Russell Sage Foundation give?
- Russell Sage Foundation reported 171 grants totaling $7,280,552 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Russell Sage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Social Science (8%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are Russell Sage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($2.2M), New York University ($1.7M), University of Chicago ($1.1M).
- Does Russell Sage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell Sage Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell Sage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation.
- Where is Russell Sage Foundation based?
- Russell Sage Foundation is based in NY.
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