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Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$516k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$106k0%
FY202415$51k60%
FY20237$169k43%
FY20224$272k50%
FY202110$53kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$486kHealth$81kHuman Services$23kReligion$16kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$8kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
VA
AZ
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbus Classical Academy$440,00035%
Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc$20,50041%
Wake Forest University$19,09120%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$10,00010%
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio$4,50040%
Center for Christian Virtue$1,00010%
Melissa's House$1,00010%
American Culture Foundation$1,00010%
Asheville School Inc$50010%
Turning Point USA Inc$50010%
Friends of the Shelter$50010%
A Kid Again Inc$50010%
The Heritage Foundation$50010%
Lifewise Inc$50010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbus Classical Academy: $440,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetServing Our Neighbors Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWake Forest University: $19,091 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity - Midohio: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Christian Virtue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMelissa's House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Culture Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsheville School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Shelter: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Kid Again Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifewise Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

Compare Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati with peer funders

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How do I get to Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati?

Find your warmest path to Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati 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.

About Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati

How much does Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati give?
Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati reported 3 grants totaling $106,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Health (12%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Columbus Classical Academy ($440k), Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc ($21k), Wake Forest University ($19k).
Does Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati based?
Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati is based in OH.

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 26 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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