· Private foundation
The Russell 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $255,000 |
| HIGHWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN POLICY ROUND TABLE | $120,000 |
| EMERGE MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP CENTER | $10,000 |
| I KNOW GOD | $10,000 |
| ASSEMBLIES OF GOD WORLD MISSIONS | $7,600 |
| THE YOGI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE7× · 2018–2025 · $800k · revenue -21%
- VCValley Christian School3× · 2018–2025 · $515k
- HTHIGHWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH2× · 2024–2025 · $300k
Funded once
- YFYSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HRHEART REACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $20k
- OGOMEGA GRADUATE SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -6%
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.
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.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Church
To serve leaders in local churches so we can grow in christ both individually and collectively.
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
Biblical counseling
Educating the leaders of christian churches across the middle east to encourage a trickle-down effect in the faith of the holistic christian community through open-minded discussions about christian values, critical thinking of the bible,…
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Provide counseling through assessments and counseling sessions. provided training program to churches and individuals.increase outreach in the community through social media and the web.
The organization's mission is to revitalize churches in crisis or transition and see them reconciled and restored to unity, with gifted leadership in place, gospel values embedded, effective governance, and an exciting mission agreed on.
Empowering individuals to make healthy decisions, through a commitment to applying the gospel of jesus christ in word and deed by offering emotional, spiritual & practical help to those facing crisis pregnancy or post abortion trauma &…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Valley Christian School ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OMEGA GRADUATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF MAHONING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Emerge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Russell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Russell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Russell Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Russell Family Foundation 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.
Play a game based on Russell Family’s filings →