How much does The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation give?

The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Health (16%), Human Services (12%).

Who are The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($28k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($13k), Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ($12k).

Does The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable 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 Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc.

The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation

The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation

Q: Where is The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation based?

The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation is based in AL.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$150

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$157kHealth$81kHuman Services$61kEducation$31kAnimals$7kFood & Nutrition$5kCrime & Legal$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150

Median grant

States reached

$951k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$150

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$316k · 37 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$316k

$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+9%

Still filing today

65%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
2× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +123%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
3× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +125%
AC
Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation
3× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +81%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $150k
SS
STEGALL SEMINARY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $15k
FB
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health

Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education

Mercy Medical Corporation

We, mercy medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, we are committed to continuing the…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health

Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

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Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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Mercy Life of Alabama

We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, we are committed to continuing…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Honeyword Foundation Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

31/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$388,332Health$70,750Human Services$30,850Animals$6,500International$4,750Food & Nutrition$3,000Arts & Culture$1,900

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.

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Working Woman's Home Association Inc · Viro Fund · The Landa Fund · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · The Long Lewis 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 Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home