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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.

$406k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.3MEducation$264kFood & Nutrition$237kPublic Safety & Disaster$176kHuman Services$86kPublic Benefit$80kReligion$76kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$60,000
FEEDMORE WNY$50,000
MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$30,000
PROJECT 33 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$30,000
PALM BEACH POLICE DEPT$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
KALEIDA HEALTH FDN$20,000
JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
VILLAGE OF HAMBURG$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MICHAEL J FOX FDN FOR PARKINSON$10,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $15k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $15k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $15k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $15k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $15k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $3k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
CT
CA
MD
TN
OK
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 38 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-21%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +145%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +180%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +392%

Funded once

  • HH
    HDC HAMBURG COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • OC
    OCH CULTURAL FUND (JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SP
    ST PETER & PAUL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

1
St Joseph's Medical Pc

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.

Health
2
St Peter's Hospital

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…

Health
3
Calvary Hospital Inc

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…

Health
4
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

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.

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
6
St Francis Hospital

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.

Health
7
St Joseph's Hospital Health Center

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.…

Health
8
Mercy Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

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.

Health
10
Chs Physician Partners Pc

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.

Health
11
St Charles Hospital Foundation

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.

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12
St Charles Hospital Corp

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDMORE WNY: $190,000 · OtherFEEDMORE WNYROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTEHOSPITAL FOUNDATION WNY: $95,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOUNDATION WNYST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLHOSPICE OF BUFFALO: $85,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF BUFFALOPALM BEACH POLICE DEPT: $80,000 · OtherPALM BEACH POLICE DEPTIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 · Other+28 more: $293,039 · Other+28 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $256,500 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE F…MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $182,800 · PhilanthropyMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATI…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF B…+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $220,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RE…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $105,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDA…THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE …Texas Heart Institute: $30,000 · HealthTexas Heart InstituteJP'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationHILBERT COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationHAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $21,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $26,000 · Human ServicesHAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $75,000 · Public Safety & DisasterProject 33 Memorial Foundation Inc: $60,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,053,039Philanthropy$485,300Health$450,000Education$166,500Human Services$101,000Public Safety & Disaster$75,000Public Benefit$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $256,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $220,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $182,800 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $75,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetProject 33 Memorial Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetHILBERT COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $26,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJP'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetKATHLEEN MARY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HILARY GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
  • Who funds Project 33 Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILBERT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds JP'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATHLEEN MARY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Osc Charitable Fo…Mother Cabrini Health…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Wh Greene FoundationFerguson Electric Fou…The Margaret L Wendt …Grigg-Lewis Foundatio…The Baird FoundationThe Kennedy Family Fo…The Vincent & Harriet…The Montgomery Family…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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