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Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati at a glance

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Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY$100,000
LIFETOWN$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%FESTA: $10k → 15%FESTA: $9k → 15%FESTA: $1k → 15%FESTA: $500 → 15%A KID AGAIN: $500 → 15%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
IN
OH
VA
AZ
NC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 7 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$614k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+12%

Still filing today

57%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $440k · revenue +6%
  • SO
    SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +117%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • US
    UA SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • CC
    CSCC CAMERON MITCHELL HALL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
5
The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…

Education
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
Wakefield School Inc

To foster the character, curiosity, & clear voices the world needs

Education
11
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
12
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Shelter. 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $440,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $19,091 · Education+2 more: $15,500 · EducationNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…NAPC: $35,000 · OtherNAPCLIFETOWN: $15,000 · OtherLIFETOWNUA SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherUA SCHOOLSMid-Ohio Foodbank: $10,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankCSCC CAMERON MITCHELL HALL: $8,000 · Other+7 more: $8,949 · Other+7 moreSERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $20,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $500 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $1,000 · Civil RightsFriends of the Shelter: $500 · AnimalsLIFEWISE INC: $500 · Youth Development
Education$474,591Other$166,949Human Services$21,500Public Benefit$2,000Civil Rights$1,000Animals$500Youth Development$500

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

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,000 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 budgetLeadership Institute: $500 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.

Columbus FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Andrea Gross Family Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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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.

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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