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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $456M
What Russell Sage Foundation does
Programs
Visiting scholar program - 13.5 fte visiting scholars, three journalists, three mos scholar and five visiting researchers were provided with offices at the foundation to conduct research, hold meetings & conduct seminars on various social science topics, including significant involvement awards related to the program.
$2,501,568 spentResearch projects program - provided direct support of social science research working with various universities. Activity also includes development costs related to evaluation and expansion of potential research in social science disciplines, including significant involvement grants related to the program.
$3,185,983 spentPublications - published seven books and six journal issues during the fiscal year on various topics in social science. Direct publishing costs of $415,730 have been excluded.
$1,005,390 spentUndertook outreach activities to promote books, journal articles and social science research by former and current visiting scholars and grantees.
$1,046,540 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $374M to $452M (+21%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
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.
Organizations like RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
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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 15 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing