How much did RUSSO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of RUSSO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

professionalreligiousveteranscancer researcheducational

2019

artscancer researcheducationalyoutheducationfood banksbanks food

2020

educationalfood

2021

therapeuticeducationeducationalfood

2022

caremedicalmarinesnewarkdisabilitieseducationaleducation

2023

exemptboy scoutscareyoungmarineseducationfood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

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

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$316k

Total assets

Largest grants

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
NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL$25,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $728k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 45 repeat orgs$909k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+55%

Still filing today

51%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

CF
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +140%
AS
ALL STARS PROJECT INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +58%
MA
MEADOWLANDS AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +58%

Funded once

WP
WE PROVIDE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -96%
CF
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ
one grant, 2019 · $110k
C
CROSSROADS4HOPEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +309%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Autism New Jersey Inc

Autism New Jersey drives statewide change and creates connections through compassionate support, expert guidance, and a deep commitment to an autism-friendly New Jersey.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Inc

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.

Health

Fund for New Jersey

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Newark Community Health Centers Inc

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…

Health

New Jersey Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health

Community Foundation of New Jersey

To connect donors to organizations, provide leadership and support to donors, community organizations, leaders and foundations to achieve the art of lasting philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Central Jersey Medical Center Inc

To deliver quality health services, support and education to those who need them, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.

Health

New Jersey Food Council Inc

To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey

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New Jersey Health Care Quality

To improve the safety, quality,and affordability of healthcare for everyone.

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Triple C Housing Inc

To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independentlywith dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential

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North Jersey Friendship House Inc

Assist people with developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life.

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Healthcare Institute of New Jersey Inc

To raise awareness, understanding and public support for the research based pharmaceutical and medical technology industry among new jersey's elected and appointed officials, media, citizens and opinion leaders.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ctc Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Eastern Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/60

the rest of the field

10%

4,751/48,643

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.

05the grantee network

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

42/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,764,440Human Services$730,300Arts & Culture$386,650Food & Nutrition$365,500Membership Benefit$212,500Education$160,000Health$126,250

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.

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.

Pseg Foundation IncNJ26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest Nj · Investors Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

29get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: QUIET HELP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~233 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 850600914 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on QUIET HELP INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 233 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Russo Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Russo Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RUSSO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russo Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

RUSSO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Russo Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph