Connecticut · 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.
- $43k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $224k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Russo Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $43k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $31k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $22k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $20k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $19k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $6k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattanville University | $36,166 | 7 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fairfield Country Day School Corporation | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Curtis Summer Camp Fund Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Patterson Club Inc | $2,815 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $2,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $1,878 | 7 | 0% |
| Emory University | $1,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Center for Family Justice Inc | $1,450 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russo Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Russo Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Russo Family Foundation Inc give?
- Russo Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Russo Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Health (7%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Russo Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Manhattanville University ($36k), Sacred Heart University Incorporated ($26k), Fairfield Country Day School Corporation ($21k).
- Does Russo Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russo Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Russo Family Foundation Inc based?
- Russo Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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