Russell Foundation Grants

The Russell Foundation provides grants aimed at enhancing the development of children and youth into confident and responsible individuals. With a focus on education, character building, health, and intervention, the foundation seeks to support programs that address the holistic needs of young people. Their mission emphasizes fostering a positive environment that promotes growth and development, ensuring that children and youth can achieve their fullest potential, regardless of their socio-economic background.

The Russell Foundation supports programs for the younger generation that promote development into confident, competent and caring adults who will make positive contributions to society.
Our Purpose
To make a positive difference in the lives of children, youth and young adults (thru age 23) so that they can achieve their highest potential.
Our Business
Supporting qualified charitable organizations, projects and research that seek solutions to detrimental issues – individual and systemic – which achieve enduring positive effects on the physical, intellectual and emotional development of children and youth of all ages and socio-economic status.
Focus Areas
Award grants focus on six areas supporting children and youth. The distribution of grants awarded each year reflects the Foundation’s current emphasis toward each area. The Foundation’s future emphasis may change, but it will consider grant applications addressing any of these focus areas.
Education: Advancing the learning skills and academic achievements of children from kindergarten to high school using tutoring, mentoring, and talent-coaching that supplement and complement formal educational systems.Development: Building the long-term life skills, awareness, and ambition to have the confidence and motivation necessary to pursue goals for the betterment of themselves and society.  Intervention: Providing the short-term framework and resources needed to protect children facing immediate difficulties in their living environments that undermine their long-term development.Character: Instilling morals and principles that foster ethical behavior, self-responsibility, respect for others, stewardship of the environment, and caring for those in need.Health: Fostering and maintaining the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of children that is essential for positive development.Medical: Providing services, resources, and other support for specific treatment / correction of birth defects, disease, and physical injury.

Eligibility

Organization in current tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code