California · Private foundation
The LaRussa Family Foundation
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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The LaRussa Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $86k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $84k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $77k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $89k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $82k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $82k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $76k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $35k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Rescue Corps Inc | $80,915 | 9 | 1% |
| Cat Town | $53,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Spikes K9 Fund | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Finding a Best Friend | $29,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Bunnys Buddies | $27,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Carson Cats Rescue | $25,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Fix Our Ferals | $24,090 | 7 | 0% |
| Abandoned Angels Inc | $24,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Save Our Cats & Kittens From Feline Infectiou | $15,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The LaRussa Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The LaRussa Family Foundation
- How much does The LaRussa Family Foundation give?
- The LaRussa Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $85,832 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The LaRussa Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (94%), Human Services (2%), Youth Development (0%).
- Who are The LaRussa Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Animal Rescue Corps Inc ($81k), Cat Town ($54k), Spikes K9 Fund ($40k).
- Does The LaRussa Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The LaRussa Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The LaRussa Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, Greater Good Charities, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is The LaRussa Family Foundation based?
- The LaRussa Family Foundation is based in CA.
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