New York · Private foundation
Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $690,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $1.2M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $954k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $946k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.0M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $902k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $819k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $820k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $768k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The George Washington University | $3,257,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Albertine Foundation | $595,000 | 8 | 5% |
| University of Michigan | $340,000 | 8 | 36% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $283,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Carl Safina Center Inc the Safina Center | $180,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $153,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Media Analysis Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Grand Central Atelier Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $52,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 New York Community Trust · J & Ar Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc · The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert & Lois Geller Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc
- How much does Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc give?
- Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $1,154,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (6%).
- Who are Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The George Washington University ($3.3M), Albertine Foundation ($595k), University of Michigan ($340k).
- Does Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, J & Ar Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc based?
- Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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