· Public charity
US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law
The u.s.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE | $100,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $96,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $96,000 |
| WAYUSA INC | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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