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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.

$668k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$16M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$668k11%
FY202313$808k8%
FY202210$856k10%
FY202114$1.0M14%
FY202017$1.4M18%
FY201918$903k17%
FY201819$994k16%
FY201722$842kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MArts & Culture$2.1MHealth$1.3MScience & Tech$369kFood & Nutrition$140kHuman Services$77kAnimals$50kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster Country Day School$1,841,35663%
Franklin & Marshall College$804,25960%
Mount Gretna School of Art$593,886852%
Lancasterhistoryorg$536,77645%
Choices Healthcare$512,24670%
Lancaster General Health Foundation$434,83745%
Lancaster Science Center$368,95585%
Whitney Museum of American Art$276,71840%
Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School$250,00040%
Music for Everyone$155,726418%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster Country Day School$1,841,35663%
Franklin & Marshall College$804,25960%
Mount Gretna School of Art$593,886852%
Lancasterhistoryorg$536,77645%
Choices Healthcare$512,24670%
Lancaster General Health Foundation$434,83745%
Lancaster Science Center$368,95585%
Whitney Museum of American Art$276,71840%
Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School$250,00040%
Music for Everyone$155,726418%
Demuth Foundation$150,985414%
Lancaster Public Library$150,43932%
Fulton Theatre Company$149,52431%
Nakedeye Inc$142,000779%
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences$121,41940%
Lancaster County Food Hub$100,00016%
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic$76,17431%
Samaritan Center$56,35022%
Lancaster Day Care Center$51,53013%
Elizabethtown College$51,40510%
Kenner Family Research Fund$51,222287%
Lancaster General Hospital$50,06150%
Rock Ford Foundation$50,00052%
Central Market Trust$39,78742%
Bright Side Opportunities Corporati$25,33517%
Keystone Service Systems Inc$25,00010%
Keystone Human Services$25,00010%
Midpenn Legal Services$20,00020%
Lancaster County Conservancy$16,00010%
Swim Across America Inc$10,00010%
Milagro House Inc$7,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($326k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLancaster Country Day School: $1,841,356 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $804,259 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMount Gretna School of Art: $593,886 over 8y, 52% of budgetLancasterhistoryorg: $536,776 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetChoices Healthcare: $512,246 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLancaster General Health Foundation: $434,837 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetLancaster Science Center: $368,955 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $276,718 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetConey Island Preparatory Public Charter School: $250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMusic for Everyone: $155,726 over 4y, 18% of budgetDemuth Foundation: $150,985 over 4y, 14% of budgetLancaster Public Library: $150,439 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFulton Theatre Company: $149,524 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNakedeye Inc: $142,000 over 7y, 79% of budgetPennsylvania College of Health Sciences: $121,419 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLancaster County Food Hub: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLancaster Cleft Palate Clinic: $76,174 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSamaritan Center: $56,350 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLancaster Day Care Center: $51,530 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetElizabethtown College: $51,405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKenner Family Research Fund: $51,222 over 2y, 87% of budgetLancaster General Hospital: $50,061 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRock Ford Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCentral Market Trust: $39,787 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBright Side Opportunities Corporati: $25,335 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetKeystone Service Systems Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone Human Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMidpenn Legal Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLancaster County Conservancy: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilagro House Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationFerree FoundationWillis and Elsie Shen…Clark Associates Char…Fulton Family Foundat…Tecumseh Milestone Fo…Ginko FoundationUnited Way of Lancast…Pryor E & Arlene R Ne…High Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA52.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation

How much does Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation give?
Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $668,314 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (28%), Health (18%).
Who are Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lancaster Country Day School ($1.8M), Franklin & Marshall College ($804k), Mount Gretna School of Art ($594k).
Does Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas a and Georgina T Russo 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 Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, High Foundation.
Where is Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation based?
Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation is based in PA.

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 36 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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