· Private foundation
Russo Family 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 $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CURTIS SUMMER CAMP FUND INC | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $500 |
| CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT | $500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- FCFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +17%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +104%
- TPTHE PATTERSON CLUB INC3× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TETRINITY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -27%
- USUCONN SPEECH AND HEARING CLINICone grant, 2017 · $1k
- NENEW ENGLAND RIVALS AAU BASKETBALLone grant, 2019 · $750
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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 44 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 63 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 MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATTERSON CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Stuttering Foundation of America ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds MANHASSET WOMEN'S COALITION AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundinc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Tauck 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.