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Raleigh R Ross Texas Surgical Society Scholarship Fund Charitable Trust
To provide scholarships to general surgery residents in texas and educational grants to the educational institution of the chosen scholars.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of RALEIGH R ROSS TEXAS SURGICAL SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP FUND CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $156,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $160,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER | $13,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $13,000 |
| DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST RESIDENCY | $13,000 |
| UTMB DEPT OF SURGERY | $13,000 |
| TEXAS TECH SURGICAL RESIDENCY | $13,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL | $13,000 |
| J BRADLEY AUST SURGICAL | $13,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $13,000 |
| S&W GEN SURG EDUCATION FUND | $13,000 |
| UT HOUSTON - DEPT OF SURGERY | $13,000 |
| TEXAS TECH AT LUBBOCH | $13,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BSBaylor Scott & White Health7× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +43%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL7× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +68%
- USUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS6× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HVHOUSTON VA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -48%
- TTTEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BSBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICALone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to the residents of Tarrant County and the surrounding communities for more than 100 years.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 1897.
Faith based physician group providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 1904.
Faith based hospitals providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to the greater Austin, Texas metropolitan service area and the surrounding communities.
Faith based supporting organization providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities that provide patient care, medical education, medical research and community services.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to Irving, Texas and the surrounding communities since 1964.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to Waxahachie, Texas and the surrounding communities.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 2013.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to McKinney, Texas and the surrounding communities.
Faith based medical research organization bringing innovative treatment to patients through basic science, clinical trials, and health care effectiveness and quality of care research.
Provides philanthropic support services to help Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) achieve its mission of promoting the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 2005.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor University Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is J Bradley Aust Surgical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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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 Raleigh R Ross Texas Surgical Society Scholarship Fund Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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