California · Private foundation
Bob a 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.
- $520k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $931k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bob a Ross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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 | 29 | $520k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $449k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $383k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $463k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $380k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $597k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $594k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $507k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openhouse | $916,000 | 9 | 9% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $512,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $206,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society | $205,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Shanti Project | $205,000 | 7 | 1% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lensic Performing Arts Center | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| San Francisco Chanticleer Inc | $86,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bob a Ross Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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 San Francisco Foundation · Horizons Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Hb and Lucille Horn Foundation · Koret Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bob a Ross Foundation Inc
- How much does Bob a Ross Foundation Inc give?
- Bob a Ross Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $519,639 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bob a Ross Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Bob a Ross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Openhouse ($916k), San Francisco Ballet Association ($513k), Larkin Street Youth Services ($240k).
- Does Bob a Ross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bob a 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 Bob a Ross Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Horizons Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Bob a Ross Foundation Inc based?
- Bob a Ross Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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