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Ross Charitable Support 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVE ME SIGHT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER | $3,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF THE EARTH | $2,000 |
| SALT LAKE CITY POLICE DEPT | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE CRUELTY OF ANIMALS | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,000 |
| UNICEF | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CHILD FUND | $1,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +93%
- RMRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- EIEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -49%
- TLThe League of Utah Writers The League of Utah Writersone grant, 2023 · $4k
- AAADOPT A NATIVE ELDER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Kitty care neuter or spay and rehome
Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…
Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Operations of utah faces has terminated. as part of the disolution the entitey officially entered into a declaration of donation to remit 100% of the remaining donations to the salt lake county animal services, a local county agency…
Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Animal Adoption Center and the most unlike its peers is League of Utah Writers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 52 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.
- Who funds League of Utah Writers ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds UTAH ANIMAL ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds UTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation · Paul and Ruth Lyon Family Foundation · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ross Charitable Support Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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