· Private foundation
Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTERHISTORYORG | $250,000 |
| LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $102,700 |
| HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE | $76,614 |
| MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART | $71,500 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $50,000 |
| NAKEDEYE INC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS | $25,000 |
| MUSIC FOR EVERYONE | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LCLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +55%
- MGMOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $594k · revenue +63% · 52% of their budget
- LLANCASTERHISTORYORG4× · 2019–2024 · $537k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +89%
- LDLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTERone grant, 2018 · $52k · revenue +7%
- ECELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nakedeye Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds CHOICES HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Music for Everyone ↗
- Who funds DEMUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NAKEDEYE INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KENNER FAMILY RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ROCK FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MARKET TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Tecumseh Milestone Foundation · Ginko Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · High Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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