· Private foundation
Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $50,000 |
| MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE DEPT | $30,000 |
| PROJECT 33 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOUNDATION WNY | $25,000 |
| HAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE JACOBS INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| KALEIDA HEALTH FDN | $20,000 |
| VILLAGE OF HAMBURG | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WINGS OF FLIGHT HOPE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +145%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +180%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- HHHDC HAMBURG COMMUNITY PLAYGROUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SPST PETER & PAUL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- OCOCH CULTURAL FUND (JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)one grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, st. joseph's hospital health center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's hospital health center is a member of st.…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kathleen Mary House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Project 33 Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HILBERT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds KATHLEEN MARY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JP'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Wh Greene Foundation · Ferguson Electric Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · The Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation · The Montgomery Family 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 organization Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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 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.
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