How much did RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION reported 8 grants totaling $608,217 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION based?

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION is based in WA.

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION

To empower change in the world, one child at a time.

$608k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$211k

Largest

01What you fund

0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.3MYouth Development$1.4MHealth$558kHuman Services$232kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kArts & Culture$75kPhilanthropy$5kOther$1.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

children'sseattleyouth

2019

king librarylibrary systemyouth

2020

youth

2021

—

2022

children'ssupports

2023

children's health

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $105k
$50k–250k4 grants · $486k

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$99k

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN PA$211,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN NATIONAL$75,000
SALVATION ARMY$45,000
THE V FOUNDATION$25,000
CANCER BRIDGES$25,000
PITTSBURGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.2M · 3 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+53%

Still filing today

100%

91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

WN
WHY NOT YOU ACADEMY
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +207% · 28% of their budget
SA
STRONG AGAINST CANCER
3× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +6%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +0%

Funded once

AP
A PRECIOUS CHILDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +32%
EC
EDUCATING CHILDREN OF COLOR INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +354%
KO
KIDS ON BIKES INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +219%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

The provision of quality health care services to infants, children and adolescents.

Health

Seattle Country Day School

Inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity and wonder.

Education

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Seattle Children's Guild Association

Supporting seattle children's hospital through fundraising activities.

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The Association of Chrmc and University

To assist seattle children's hospital ("sch") and university of washington school of medicine ("uwsom") in carrying out their pediatric care, charitable, educational, and scientific missions.

Health

Kids in Need Foundation

To create equitable learning spaces for all students. kids in need foundation's programs provide supplies directly to under-resourced schools, reaching students through their schools and teachers. when supplies are lacking, the quality of…

Education

Boys & Girls Clubs of King County

Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.

Recreation & Sports

Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development

Council for Court Excellence

Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.

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Washington State Child Care Resource

Management of statewide child care resource and referral system.

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United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

10%

4,081/38,934

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

27/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,309,794Other$1,509,202Youth Development$1,408,151Health$558,283Human Services$232,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Arts & Culture$75,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of King County · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · One Eighty Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado · Colorado Springs Health Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WHY NOT YOU ACADEMY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833285687 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WHY NOT YOU ACADEMY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Russell Wilson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Russell Wilson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russell Wilson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russell Wilson Foundation?

More from the funding graph