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The Russell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
128
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$11MPhilanthropy$6.5MEducation$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $293k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $655k
$8,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND$75,000
RESTAURANT 2 GARDEN (FISCAL SPONSOR SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION)$75,000
VIVA FARMS$75,000
PIERCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$75,000
COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (C2C) FS INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTUR$75,000
KULSHAN CARBON TRUST$70,000
WASHINGTON WATER TRUST$60,000
VC INCLUDE A PROJECT OF TIDES CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA$50,000
WASHINGTON MARITIME BLUE$50,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT$45,000
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY KITSAP COUNTY EXTENSION$26,000
CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION INSTITUTE$25,000
CLIMATE INTERACTIVE FISCALLY SPONSORED BY NEW VENTURE FUND$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $100k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $10k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 9%BIG HOMIE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $50k → 9%THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $18k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $100k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $75k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $41k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $30k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $18k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $50k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $20k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $25k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $20k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $40k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $20k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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 11% of The Russell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 90%.

The Russell Family Foundationlessmore 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 243 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

243 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 185 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

243
203

Total granted

$21M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+41%

Still filing today

61%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $964k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $580k · revenue +66%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +268%
  • SP
    Stewardship Partners
    6× · 2017–2022 · $508k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • S
    SPLASH
    one grant, 2018 · $800k
  • FA
    FRONT AND CENTERED (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY LATINO COMMUNITY FUND)
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
  • V
    VANGUARD
    one grant, 2020 · $101k
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
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
2
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
3
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
4
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
5
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

—
7
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

—
8
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
9
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

—
10
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is Provision. 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

330 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. 330 of the 511 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
114
Early backer (in before they grew)
321/330
Grantees still filing
242/330
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE: $2,745,400 · OtherPUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVESPLASH: $800,000 · OtherSPLASHBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $716,250 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUNDCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $517,500 · Other+108 more: $7,109,708 · Other+108 moreGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,540,855 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY F…UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $1,300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNT…TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC: $265,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $524,120 · Philanthropy+5 moreWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $579,500 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVA…Stewardship Partners: $507,500 · EnvironmentStewardship Partner…PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $491,500 · EnvironmentPUGET SOUNDKEEPER A…RE SOURCES: $342,500 · EnvironmentRE SOURCESAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $265,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR WILDWATCH: $252,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $186,012 · EnvironmentGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $180,500 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Science Center: $172,500 · Environment+29 more: $2,027,601 · Environment+29 moreGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $365,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANK: $215,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $205,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND: $155,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE COFFEE OASIS: $112,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $90,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Community House: $87,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $77,500 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services: $70,000 · Human Services+5 more: $128,500 · Human ServicesDEGREES OF CHANGE: $206,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $162,500 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $157,650 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $157,650 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $125,500 · EducationWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LAND TRUSTS: $110,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $84,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $83,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $60,083 · EducationPuget Sound Voyaging Society: $60,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE FFA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationClean Energy Transition Institute: $45,000 · Education+1 more: $30,000 · EducationFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $452,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Glass: $380,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRUM FOUNDATION: $47,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $45,500 · Arts & CulturePORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER: $190,030 · Science & TechNORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $185,000 · Science & TechOceans Initiative: $127,500 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $70,000 · Science & TechPACIFIC SHELLFISH INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Science & Tech
Other$11,888,858Philanthropy$6,629,975Environment$5,005,113Human Services$1,740,500Education$1,341,383Arts & Culture$1,210,500Science & Tech$632,530

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,540,855 over 8y, 12% of budgetPUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE: $2,745,400 over 4y, 92% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $1,300,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $579,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $517,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetStewardship Partners: $507,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $491,500 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $452,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $380,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $365,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetRE SOURCES: $342,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC: $265,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $265,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHARBOR WILDWATCH: $252,500 over 6y, 34% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $247,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $235,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $215,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $206,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $205,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER: $190,030 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $187,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $186,012 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $180,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Science Center: $172,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $162,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $158,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $157,650 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $157,650 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $156,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND: $155,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPure Blue: $145,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTH CREEK FOREST: $145,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetNISQUALLY REACH NATURE CENTER: $138,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $135,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $128,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $127,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetOceans Initiative: $127,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $125,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $125,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA: $120,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS: $112,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $110,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $110,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LAND TRUSTS: $110,000 over 4y, 19% 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.

  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds Stewardship Partners ↗
  • Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH ↗
  • Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR WILDWATCH ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
  • Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Science Center ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Pure Blue ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTH CREEK FOREST ↗

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Bamford FoundationFuchsg & M Fdn TaiPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Seattle FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationMedina FoundationKilworth Florence Cha…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Forest Foundation
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA132.9× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Medina Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Forest Foundation

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Northwest Youth Corps: 100% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Food Connects: 15% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
89report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 511 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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