· Private foundation
Tom Russell Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE SOUTHEAST RALEIGH CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $102,000 |
| DONKA INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| HENDERSON COLLEGIATE | $22,500 |
| PS 70 MAX SCHOENFELD | $20,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS | $20,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC | $17,500 |
| THE COUNCIL OF URBAN PROFESSIONALS INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| LATINO EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $13,500 |
| COLORADO WOMENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE INC | $12,000 |
| CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC | $10,000 |
| KIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $814k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- RSRISE SOUTHEAST RALEIGH CHARTER SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2025 · $352k · revenue +30%
- DIDONKA INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $302k · revenue +17%
- MLMARCY LAB INC4× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue ×13
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAILone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +15%
Urban Ministries of Durham Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%- LOLEADERSHIP OKLAHOMA INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
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.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…
Operation of a public charter school.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Support of member charter schools in north carolina
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
Operation of a public charter school.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Porch-Hillsborough. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 84 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 RISE SOUTHEAST RALEIGH CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DONKA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds MARCY LAB INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Latino Educational Achievement Partnership ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds THE LOTUS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF NORMAN INC ↗
- Who funds GADS HILL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL OF URBAN PROFESSIONALS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Covenant Christian School ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · John Rex Endowment · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · Fidelity Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Gipson Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101
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 Tom Russell Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
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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