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Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $25k → 11%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $52k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $8k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 26 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
9

Total granted

$7.2M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+59%

Still filing today

85%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +55%
  • MG
    MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $594k · revenue +63% · 52% of their budget
  • L
    LANCASTERHISTORYORG
    4× · 2019–2024 · $537k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +89%
  • LD
    LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $52k · revenue +7%
  • EC
    ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +2%
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
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

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.

Education
2
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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…

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3
Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture
4
Lancaster General Health

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.

Health
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Chambersburg Hospital

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.

Health
9
Trustees of the University of 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…

Education
10
Cedar Crest College

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…

Education
11
Macalester College

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.

Education
12
Lycoming College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,841,356 · EducationLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $804,259 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGEMOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART: $593,886 · EducationMOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ARTCONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationCONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $150,439 · Education+1 more: $51,405 · EducationLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $536,776 · Arts & CultureLANCASTERHISTORYORGLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $368,955 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTERWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $276,718 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN …Music for Everyone: $155,726 · Arts & CultureMusic for EveryoneDEMUTH FOUNDATION: $150,985 · Arts & CultureDEMUTH FOUNDATIONFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $149,524 · Arts & CultureFULTON THEATRE COMPANYNAKEDEYE INC: $142,000 · Arts & CultureNAKEDEYE INC+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $512,246 · Human ServicesCHOICES H…LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $51,530 · Human ServicesLANCASTER…KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $121,419 · OtherPENNSYLVA…Individual grant recipient: $117,864 · OtherIndividua…Individual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividua…Individual grant recipient: $62,880 · OtherIndividua…SAMARITAN CENTER: $56,350 · OtherSAMARITAN…KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES - SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $50,000 · OtherKEYSTONE …CENTRAL MARKET TRUST: $39,787 · OtherCENTRAL M…BRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $25,335 · Other+3 more: $36,018 · Other+3 moreLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $434,837 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $76,174 · HealthKENNER FAMILY RESEARCH FUND: $51,222 · HealthLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50,061 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $25,000 · HealthLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $100,000 · Religion
Education$3,691,345Arts & Culture$1,830,684Human Services$596,276Other$604,653Philanthropy$444,837Health$202,457Religion$100,000

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    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 · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas a and Georgina T Russo 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.

    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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