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· Private foundation
HUGH & RUTH V ROSS CHARITABLE FUND INC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$331k
Granted FY2025
11
Grants
1
Communities
$101k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Health$454kReligion$101kHuman Services$44kEducation$38kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$3kEnvironment$2kOther$219k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2024
educationalkohler artsarts endowment
2025
endowment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $303k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC$101,000
- FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$101,000
- JM KOHLER ARTS CENTER ENDOWMENT$101,000
- MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY$4,000
- SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION-BRIDGWAY HOUSE$4,000
- SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC$4,000
- UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN ARTS SCHOLAR$4,000
- SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,000
- SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,000
- FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC$2,000
- FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL PROJECT$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$685k · 13 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
8
Total granted
$685k
$101k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+19%
+262%
Still filing today
38%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentReligionOther
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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +19%
- SPSHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +176%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LCLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CAREgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +28%
- SCSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +262%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SHEBOYGAN WIone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce Inc
Promote sheboygan county business development.
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Lake Country Academy Inc
To enhance student educational opportunities in sheboygan county.
Education
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Sheboygan County Historical Research Centerinc
The sheboygan county historical research center serves the public by collecting, preserving and making available the written documentation and images of sheboygan county.
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Sheridan Community Land Trust
To promote agricultural landscapes, open space, wildlife habitats, historical structures and sites, and to provide opportunities for recreation, these interests being complimentary and essential to the quality of life and economic…
Environment
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Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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Sheboygan Human Rights Association Inc
Sheboygan county head start/early head start is a federal & state funded preschool and family development program for families who are at or below the federal poverty guidelines. growing generations childcare center provides enhanced child…
Education
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Sheboygan County Interfaith
A spiritually based organization of faith communities to educate and advocate for social justice, dignity, and to improve quality of life for all people by being a bridge between community needs and partner resources.
Religion
8
Sheboygan Area Credit Union
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
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Family Resource Center of
Providing families and individuals of sheboygan county with educational programming and resources to support a connected and thriving community.
Education
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Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc
The Lake Superior Community Partnership is the Marquette County regions leading resource for economic development, providing a wide variety of affordable and effective development services.
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Family Service Association of Sheboygan
Family service association of sheboygan, inc. is dedicated to helping individuals and families maintain and achieve financial stability and improve their quality of life. we accomplish this and enhance the community by providing education,…
Human Services
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Land Conservancy of West Michigan
The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$453,500Other$218,500Religion$101,000Human Services$43,500Education$38,000Arts & Culture$28,250Food & Nutrition$3,000Environment$1,500
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY 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.
Frank G & Frieda K Brotz FamilyWI20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · The Zieve Foundation · Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
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 organisation HUGH & RUTH V ROSS CHARITABLE FUND 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237447144 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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