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The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$500
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$7k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$5000%
FY20221$500100%
FY20212$32k0%
FY20202$8k0%
FY20192$31k0%
FY20189$58k56%
FY20179$25kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$90kEducation$37kScience & Tech$20kHealth$15kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$5kArts & Culture$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRosie's Place Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826 Boston Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHealth Story Collaborative Inc: $5,300 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Servings Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Hill Village Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: $305 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation

How much does The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation give?
The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Education (20%), Science & Tech (11%).
Who are The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Cecilia Parish Inc ($90k), Rosie's Place Inc ($10k), 826 Boston Inc ($7k).
Does The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation based?
The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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