Delaware · Private foundation
Bross Family Foundation
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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $232k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Bross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 3 | $78k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $67k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Groton School | $46,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Diocese of Dallas | $22,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Cps Lives Nfp | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brearley School | $3,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Facets Film Forum | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Living Church Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Groton School | $46,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Diocese of Dallas | $22,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Cps Lives Nfp | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brearley School | $3,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Facets Film Forum | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Living Church Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Miss Porter's School Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Paul's School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Antaeus Company | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bross Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bross Family Foundation
- How much does Bross Family Foundation give?
- Bross Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $88,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Religion (14%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Bross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($70k), Groton School ($46k), Diocese of Dallas ($22k).
- Does Bross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bross Family Foundation 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 Bross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bross Family Foundation based?
- Bross Family Foundation is based in DE.
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