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Jordon and Lesli Ross Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jordon and Lesli Ross Charitable 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$40kEducation$24kCivil Rights$19kHuman Services$18kInternational$3kHealth$690Recreation & Sports$250Philanthropy$180Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,680
Median grant
3
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MARCH OF THE LIVING SOUTHERN REGION$2,340
KESHER$1,800
NACOEJ$1,800
BOCA JEWISH CENTER$1,680
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$1,000
ORTHODOX UNION WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$500
TIKVAH FUND$360
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$360
FLORIDA CHESED NETWORK$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $810) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TRUSTBRIDGE: $180 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $180 → 15%PEACE HOUSE: $100 → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%FLORIDA CHESED NETWORK: $200 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 11 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$100k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

45%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KL
    KESHER LD INC KESHER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +18%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +112%
  • TT
    THE TIKVAH FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -33%
  • RU
    REUT USA - TOM GLOBAL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • CP
    CLARION PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Sherit Isroel
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8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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10
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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11
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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12
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOCA JEWISH CENTER: $38,160 · OtherBOCA JEWISH CENTERMARCH OF THE LIVING SOUTHERN REGION: $18,216 · OtherMARCH OF THE LIVING SOUTHERN REGIONNACOEJ: $16,900 · OtherNACOEJ+14 more: $7,650 · Other+14 moreKESHER LD INC KESHER: $18,120 · EducationKESHER LD INC KESHERSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,100 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,440 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGETHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,080 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $360 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $100 · InternationalCLARION PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $180 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $54 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA CHESED NETWORK INC: $200 · Human ServicesTrustBridge Inc: $180 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $180 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $150 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc: $100 · Human ServicesCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $410 · HealthOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $360 · Religion
Other$80,926Education$23,740International$1,960Arts & Culture$1,234Human Services$810Health$410Religion$360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKESHER LD INC KESHER: $18,120 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivat Ashreinu Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustBridge Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jordon and Lesli Ross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jordon and Lesli Ross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • TrustBridge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Jordon and Lesli Ross Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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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