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James & Edith Ross 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$47kReligion$32kArts & Culture$31kPhilanthropy$26kAnimals$15kEducation$7kCrime & Legal$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,257
Median grant
2
States reached
$536k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWS OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,283
MOISHE HOUSE$10,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE$4,350
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION$2,697
RODEF SHALOM$2,625
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY$2,257
FULFILLMENT FUND$1,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY$650
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$500
HAMMER MUSEUM$250
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $116 → 5%REALIZE IMPACT: $2k → 10%FULFILLMENT FUND: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
NV
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
MD
KS
DC
LA

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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$112k · 23 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
57

Total granted

$112k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

35%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CONCERN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +30%
  • TA
    THE ARK ANTIQUES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +7%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • B
    BHFA
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO ZOO
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • GM
    GRAMMY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

1
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
2
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
3
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
10
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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11
Ucla Alumni Association

The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.

Education
12
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Allen Matkins Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
9,986/69,949

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION — $15,750 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONWOMENS GUILD CEDARS SINAI — $11,850 · OtherWOMENS GUILD CEDARS SINAIIndividual grant recipient — $7,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE — $6,850 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARETMCC — $6,500 · OtherTMCCBHFA — $6,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO ZOO — $5,000 · OtherGRAMMY MUSEUM — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS FIREFIGHTERS ASSCN — $4,000 · Other+54 more — $45,922 · Other+54 moreCONCERN FOUNDATION — $17,350 · PhilanthropyCONCERN FOUNDAT…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $5,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATI…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMM…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDO…Santa Barbara Hillel — $1,000 · PhilanthropyALLEN MATKINS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFELLOWS OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $10,283 · Arts & CultureFELLOWS OF CON…THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $7,097 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF …FOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT — $4,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOU…SHAREWELL — $1,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $835 · Arts & CulturePROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $4,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $3,200 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $2,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,000 · HealthMOISHE HOUSE — $11,000 · Religion+1 more — $180 · ReligionTHE ARK ANTIQUES — $7,600 · Animals+1 more — $250 · AnimalsPitzer College — $2,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationLA'S BEST — $758 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200 · Education
Other$119,572Philanthropy$29,850Arts & Culture$26,465Health$12,200Religion$11,180Animals$7,850Education$5,458

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION — $17,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARK ANTIQUES — $7,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $7,097 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT — $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHILLEL 818 — $3,523 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRealize Impact — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $1,267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAREWELL — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $1,103 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN INSPIRING NEXTGEN — $1,030 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Hillel — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEN MATKINS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA'S BEST — $758 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJVS SOCAL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LITTLE RESCUE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $175 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES 4 FREEDOM — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Peter H and Marietta …Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Jewish Federation Cou…Hillel the Foundation…The Stanley & Joyce B…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…
Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust ConservatorshipCA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust Conservatorship · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organization James & Edith Ross Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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: 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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