· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k17 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Refugee Assistance Pr | $50,000 |
| Institute for International Ed | $50,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach Cty | $10,000 |
| Fordham Universtiy | $4,000 |
| Impact | $2,175 |
| PEF Israel Endowment | $1,000 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | $1,000 |
| Palm Beach County Sheriffs Foundation | $1,000 |
| New Yorkers for Children | $1,000 |
| Aish Global | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Xaxier HIgh School | $500 |
| Horizons National | $500 |
| Park Avenue Synagogue | $360 |
| Central Synagogue | $180 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +13%
- FUFordham University6× · 2021–2026 · $9k · revenue +28%
- FIFUTURES IGNITE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $10k
- FBFood Bankone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds FUTURES IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLERANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt a Family Inc ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Russo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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