· Public charity
US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law
The u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $2,951,802 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,298,002 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,346,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT | $275,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $195,000 |
| POLAR BEAR VIDEO VENTURES INC | $180,986 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $165,000 |
| FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $137,300 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $134,000 |
| SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC | $130,750 |
| RUSSIAN AMERICAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE | $100,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $96,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $96,000 |
| WAYUSA INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $409k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $4.3M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
WILD SALMON CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $885k · revenue +166%- CFCERGE-EI FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $762k · revenue +13%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $689k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GEGLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.7M · revenue +123%
- ABAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationone grant, 2020 · $188k · revenue +13%
- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $135k
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.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Eurasia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani. 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 41 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
61 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. 61 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 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds CERGE-EI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds PILNET ↗
- Who funds RUSSIAN-AMERICAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CORP ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EURASIANET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AATSEEL OF THE US INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREET LAW INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HUB TRUST ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ↗
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: The Eurasia Foundation · National Endowment for Democracy · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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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