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.

Russo Family Foundation Inc

Russo Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$26k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$134kHealth$13kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $17k
$10k–50k1 grant · $26k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$224k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$1,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$1,000
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE	$500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION	$500
COLGATE UNIVERSITY	$500
SALVATION ARMY	$500
CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT	$500

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$151k · 31 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$151k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+17%

Still filing today

58%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

FC
FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION
5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +17%
TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +104%
TP
THE PATTERSON CLUB INC
3× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +44%

Funded once

US
UCONN SPEECH AND HEARING CLINIC
one grant, 2017 · $1k
TE
TRINITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -27%
NE
NEW ENGLAND RIVALS AAU BASKETBALL
one grant, 2019 · $750

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.

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Bridgeport Hospital

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.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

24/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$93,116Other$84,435Human Services$2,374Health$2,105Philanthropy$1,502Recreation & Sports$850Arts & Culture$570

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home