· Private foundation
Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $101,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $101,000 |
| JM KOHLER ARTS CENTER ENDOWMENT | $101,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION-BRIDGWAY HOUSE | $4,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN ARTS SCHOLAR | $4,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC | $2,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL PROJECT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +7%
- SPSHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +482%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LCLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +59%
- SCSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation (scedc), a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead economic development efforts to improve the economic well-being and long-term prosperity of the businesses,…
The mission of lake country academy is to be a recognized leader in education through direct instruction and core knowledge within an environment that emphasizes core values.
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
Provide educational development programs in sheboygan county
To inspire and nurture a love of theatre and the arts with the following mission: the maintenance of a permanent multi-arts and theatre facility. the sponsorship and coordination of education and cultural programming in visual arts,…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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,…
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…
The promotion, development and maintenance of the ellwood h. may environmental park and its programs. the environmental park trust of sheboygan county was created to provide funding for the ellwood h. may environmental park developed to be…
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Zieve Foundation · Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Garton Family Foundation · Grover Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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