· Public charity
Doug and Robyn Ross Family Foundation Inc
This organization is operated exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of greater atlanta, inc., a irc 501(c)(3) organization.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Doug and Robyn Ross Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Atlanta Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Doug and Robyn Ross Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $135k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $135,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,774 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,674 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC | $23,500 |
| ATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $16,200 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $10,000 |
| IMPACTISRAEL | $5,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $470k · revenue -23%
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $131k · revenue -33%
- ASATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL INC3× · 2020–2023 · $46k
Funded once
- AJATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +178%
- ATAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +60%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLEDone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 247 Gateway Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 247 GATEWAY LLC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Doug and Robyn Ross Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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