New York · Nonprofit
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,219,271 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,759,302). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared funders
- The Mathenaeum Foundationportfolio match
- The Magaro Foundation Inc Al P Trebing Esqportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $928k → $1.7M.
From the IRS filings of RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 54% · 2019 45% · 2020 68% · 2021 69% · 2022 56% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- The Mathenaeum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Magaro Foundation Inc Al P Trebing Esqportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Lawportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eurasia Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Graduate Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neal & Jane Freeman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Public Education Support Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wolstencroft Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION?
- RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,219,271 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,759,302). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $10,219,271 in grants to RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,759,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing