Kansas · Private foundation
Paul Ross Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $190k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Paul Ross Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $190k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $180k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $181k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $180k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $152k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $162k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $163k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $195k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairn Health Inc | $87,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Lawrence Community Shelter Inc | $69,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bread of Life Inc | $68,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Guadalupe Clinic Inc | $66,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heart Ministries Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Learn & Grow Child Care Center Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $47,000 | 5 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $47,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc | $46,406 | 9 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission of Wichita Inc | $45,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul Ross Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · United Way of the Plains Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Belin Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Paul Ross Charitable Foundation
- How much does Paul Ross Charitable Foundation give?
- Paul Ross Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $189,611 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Paul Ross Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (17%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Paul Ross Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cairn Health Inc ($87k), Lawrence Community Shelter Inc ($69k), Bread of Life Inc ($68k).
- Does Paul Ross Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paul Ross Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paul Ross Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, United Way of the Plains Inc.
- Where is Paul Ross Charitable Foundation based?
- Paul Ross Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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