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Gordon Ross Medical 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.

$381k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$47,625
Organizations funded a year
19 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Gordon Ross Medical Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEmploymentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$360k9%
FY202423$320k13%
FY202323$300k9%
FY202221$278k14%
FY202121$216k14%
FY202019$207k0%
FY201921$189k14%
FY201820$191k15%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$514kScience & Tech$286kEmployment$66kHuman Services$66kRecreation & Sports$26k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon Ross Medical Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Memorial Health System: $87,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMdrc: $66,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $63,325 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJoslin Diabetes Center Inc: $57,875 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $56,188 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVentura College Foundation: $43,625 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $37,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe diaTribe Foundation: $28,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Diabetes Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGales Creek Camp Foundation: $10,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTaking Control of Your Diabetes Dba Tcoyd: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Type 1: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gordon Ross Medical Foundation

How much does Gordon Ross Medical Foundation give?
Gordon Ross Medical Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $381,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gordon Ross Medical Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Education (23%), Science & Tech (13%).
Who are Gordon Ross Medical Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Memorial Health System ($87k), St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc ($75k), Mdrc ($66k).
Does Gordon Ross Medical Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gordon Ross Medical 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 Gordon Ross Medical Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Gordon Ross Medical Foundation based?
Gordon Ross Medical Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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