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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 $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHANY CHURCH | $124,900 |
| MEADOWLANDS AREA YMCA | $105,000 |
| HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY | $89,000 |
| ALL STARS PROJECT INC | $62,500 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST | $25,000 |
| NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| HOMEWORKS TRENTON INC | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY | $18,000 |
| GARWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION | $17,625 |
| ROBERT J DINALLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND - ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK | $15,200 |
| CENTRASTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| SOUP KITCHEN 411 | $15,000 |
| NEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $751k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +100%
- ASALL STARS PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +50%
- NHNEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES4× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- WPWE PROVIDE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -96%
- CCROSSROADS4HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +31%
- HOHOUSE OF PRAYER EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
To provide advocacy, research, analysis, communication and publication of information concerning healthcare products, r & d, their manufacture and marketing as they pertain to new jersey's pharmaceutical and medical technology industry.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
The Organization's mission is to support healthcare education, research and patient care programs in the State of New Jersey and for other scientific, charitable, literary and educational purposes.
To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
The arc of new jersey promotes and protects the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes; and is…
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diabetes Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homes Fit for Heroes Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 107 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 WE PROVIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds QUIET HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWLANDS AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH HEALTH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FIT FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS4HOPE ↗
- Who funds Soup Kitchen 411 Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HACKENSACK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRASTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates · Td Charitable Foundation · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc
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.
- Team Walker Inc — 68% of income from government
- Soup Kitchen 411 Inc — 55% of income from government
- The Waterfront Project Inc — 32% of income from government
- Diabetes Foundation Inc — 31% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council — 16% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- Centrastate Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties Inc — 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.
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