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The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASS STATE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 8%BEACON HILL VILLAGE: $1k → 16%BEACON HILL VILLAGE: $1k → 16%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 7 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$126k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+71%

Still filing today

57%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • 826 BOSTON INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +329%
  • HS
    HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +156%
  • BH
    BEACON HILL VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +71%
  • COMMUNITY SERVINGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +127%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

1
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
4
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Wgbh Educational Foundation

WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
New England Historic Genealogical Society

New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…

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10
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…

Education
11
The Rhode Island Historical Society

The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CECILIA PARISH INC: $90,000 · OtherST CECILIA PARISH INCHARVARD UNIVERSITY - RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY - RADCLIFFE INSTITUTEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $1,500 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows …826 BOSTON INC: $7,000 · Education826 BOSTON INC+1 more: $305 · EducationHEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,300 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $5,100 · Human ServicesBEACON HILL VILLAGE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS STATE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$116,500Education$37,305Human Services$14,400Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth R and Rudolph R Russo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Beacon Hill Village Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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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