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Russo Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$124k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2026
21
Organizations funded FY2025
43%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$750
Largest grant, FY2026
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 26
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
7
Total assets, FY2026
$589k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 43% of the organizations Russo Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalInternationalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving19$123k21%
FY202521$92k43%
FY202426$131k58%
FY202323$162k43%
FY202218$140k44%
FY202122$33kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$305kInternational$138kHealth$121kHuman Services$21kCivil Rights$18kPhilanthropy$15kCommunity Improvement$11kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DE
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mount Sinai Health System Inc$100,00010%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$60,00040%
Jewish Foundation for Education of Women$11,50040%
Fordham University$9,00060%
Futures Ignite Inc$7,00020%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$6,05060%
The Tolerance Project Inc$6,00022%
Chicago History Museum$5,0001n/a
Cornell University$5,00010%
Impact Inc$4,3753n/a
Show all 44 grantees
All grantees of Russo Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mount Sinai Health System Inc$100,00010%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$60,00040%
Jewish Foundation for Education of Women$11,50040%
Fordham University$9,00060%
Futures Ignite Inc$7,00020%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$6,05060%
The Tolerance Project Inc$6,00022%
Chicago History Museum$5,0001n/a
Cornell University$5,00010%
Impact Inc$4,3753n/a
New Yorkers for Children Inc$3,00030%
Adopt a Family Inc$2,6003n/a
Aish Global Inc$2,50030%
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Storahtelling Lab Shul Inc$1,11640%
Barnard College$1,00010%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$1,00010%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$1,00010%
Homework Helpers Inc$700147%
New York Women's Foundation Inc$60020%
Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens Inc$5942n/a
San Diego Museum of Art$50010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$36010%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$3601n/a
Monmouth Reform Temple$3601n/a
Metropolitan Museum of Art$33030%
The Children's Home Society of Florida$27520%
Animal People Alliance Inc$25010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$20010%
Central Synagogue$1801n/a
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$15010%
San Francisco Jazz Organization$12510%
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$12010%
Kehilat Romemu$1031n/a
Second Nurture$10010%
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue$1001n/a
Children's Golf Foundation Inc$10010%
Climate Museum$10010%
The Friends of Jupiter Beach Inc$10010%
Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association Inc$752n/a
The Lord's Place Inc$6010%
Feeding America$5410%
CaringBridge$5010%
The Rockefeller University$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($447k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Russo Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Foundation for Education of Women: $11,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFordham University: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFutures Ignite Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $6,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tolerance Project Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCornell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Yorkers for Children Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAish Global Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach County Sheriff's Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStorahtelling Lab Shul Inc: $1,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Legal Assistance Group Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomework Helpers Inc: $700 over 1y, 47% of budgetNew York Women's Foundation Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Museum of Art: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $330 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of Florida: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal People Alliance Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jazz Organization: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Nurture: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Golf Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Jupiter Beach Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lord's Place Inc: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Russo Family Foundation 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.

About Russo Family Foundation

How much does Russo Family Foundation give?
Russo Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $123,525 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Russo Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (46%), International (21%), Health (18%).
Who are Russo Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($100k), International Refugee Assistance Project Inc ($60k), Jewish Foundation for Education of Women ($12k).
Does Russo Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Russo Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Russo Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc.
Where is Russo Family Foundation based?
Russo Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 72 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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