Wisconsin · Private foundation
Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $331k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 11 | $331k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $52k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $24k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $116k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $279k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $363,500 | 8 | 1% |
| First Congregational Church Endowment Trust | $101,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc | $90,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc | $38,000 | 8 | 2% |
| City of Sheboygan | $29,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County Inc | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra Inc | $28,250 | 8 | 2% |
| Sheboygan County Interfaith Organization Inc | $18,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family Connections Inc | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Theater for Young Audiences | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $363,500 | 8 | 1% |
| First Congregational Church Endowment Trust | $101,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc | $90,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc | $38,000 | 8 | 2% |
| City of Sheboygan | $29,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County Inc | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra Inc | $28,250 | 8 | 2% |
| Sheboygan County Interfaith Organization Inc | $18,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family Connections Inc | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Theater for Young Audiences | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Lakeland University | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sheboygan Theatre Company | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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.
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How this is measured
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About Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc
- How much does Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc give?
- Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc reported 11 grants totaling $331,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Arts & Culture (20%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc ($364k), First Congregational Church Endowment Trust ($101k), Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc ($90k).
- Does Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, The Zieve Foundation.
- Where is Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc based?
- Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc is based in WI.
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