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The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$223kHuman Services$150kFood & Nutrition$138kHousing & Shelter$41kReligion$30kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$11kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC$77,340
FIREFIGHTER ARNO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$10,000
EVERY BOTTOM COVERED$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE INC$5,000
GRACE GUEST HOUSE$5,000
NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ASSOCIATES OF ROCHESTER INC$5,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK$5,000
THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC$5,000
SAINTS PLACE INC$5,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$5,000
ST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY$5,000
SHERIDAN PARKSIDE LIFE CENTER INC$5,000
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $3k → 12%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $5k → 14%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $5k → 14%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $5k → 13%SHERIDAN PARKSIDE LIFE CENTER INC: $5k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $25k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%BUILD PROMISE INC: $25k → 13%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 73%.

The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$480k · 23 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
15

Total granted

$480k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $177k · revenue +4%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +144%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BUILD PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • LI
    LIFE IMPACT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -29%
  • MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -5%
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
Family Promise of Western New York

Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.

Housing & Shelter
2
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Lockport Cares Inc

The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.

Education
4
Buffalo Peace House Inc

To provide safe housing, meals, and necessary services for asylum seekers in the western new york area

Housing & Shelter
5
Rochester Food Pantry

The Rochester Food Pantry, an all-volunteer operation, provides food and personal hygiene items free of charge to needy residents who live in and around the Town of Rochester, New York.

Human Services
6
Wny Veterans' Housing Coalition Inc

To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.

Housing & Shelter
7
St Joseph's House of Hospitality

Our aim is to try each day to build a new society in the shell of the old as we practice the various works of mercy, and labor with whatever resources, physical as well as spiritual, that we have been given at the time.

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8
Trinity's Services and Food for the Homelessinc

Our mission is fourfold: to provide a reliable source of food , to support good nutrition, to offer connections to other services and to strenghten community through shared services.

Human Services
9
Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feedmore Western New York Inc

To offer dignity, hope and a brighter future by providing nutritious food, friendship, and skills training to our Western New York neighbors in need.

Food & Nutrition
11
Sw Food Program Inc

Our mission is to provide, at no cost, emergency food and other help for people in need within the City of Rochester and surrounding towns.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Shelter Services Inc

Provide temporary shelter and food for homeless families and individuals. also to provide living accomodations through a single resident occupancy program

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nativity Preparatory Academy Associates of Rochester Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $177,340 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation …NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ASSOCIATES OF ROCHESTER INC: $10,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ASSO…NATIVITYMIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $20,000 · OtherNATIVITYMIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFF…HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $20,000 · OtherHEARTS FOR THE HOMELESSFEEDMORE WNY: $15,000 · OtherFEEDMORE WNYRESOURCE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $15,000 · OtherRESOURCE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORKST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY: $15,000 · OtherST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCYPETER G YOUNG FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherPETER G YOUNG FOUNDATIONEvery Bottom Covered Inc: $10,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF CHARITY PARISH: $10,000 · OtherST ADALBERTS RESPONSE TO LOVECENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $10,000 · OtherWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $57,000 · Other+11 moreThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outreach…BUILD PROMISE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBUILD PROMISE INCCOMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY MISSIONS…THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHINGS OF MY VERY …CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILD AND FAMILY S…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $5,000 · Human ServicesSHERIDAN PARKSIDE LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD…LIFE IMPACT INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionLIFE IMPACT I…SOUTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY TABLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH BUFFALO…PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROVIDENCE FA…WNY FOOD WEB INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWNY FOOD WEB …FOODLINK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOODLINK INCSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $10,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE: $5,000 · HealthGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthFIREFIGHTER ARNO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$187,340Other$203,000Human Services$101,000Food & Nutrition$73,000Housing & Shelter$38,500Health$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $177,340 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE IMPACT INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY TABLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWNY FOOD WEB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT'S PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIDAN PARKSIDE LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The John R Oishei Fou…Community Foundation …Mother Cabrini Health…James H Cummings Foun…Cullen FoundationBuffalo Bills Foundat…The Western New York …Foundation 214 IncEast Hill FoundationThe Frank G Raichle F…Rich Family FoundationHealth Foundation for…
The John R Oishei FoundationNY36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation 214 Inc · East Hill Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York

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 Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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