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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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$62kHealth$55kArts & Culture$40kFood & Nutrition$28kInternational$23kAnimals$19kHousing & Shelter$13kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$395k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVE ME SIGHT FOUNDATION$5,000
UTAH FOOD BANK$3,000
ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
SALT LAKE CITY POLICE DEPT$2,000
CHILDREN OF THE EARTH$2,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$1,000
SALT LAKE CITY MISSION$1,000
CHILD FUND$1,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE CRUELTY OF ANIMALS$1,000
RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE$1,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%CHILDREN AND THE EARTH: $2k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%Utah Police Civilian Association Utah Police Civilian Association: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION UT: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $1k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $1k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $1k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $1k → 8%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

VT
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
VA
DC
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 26 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
21

Total granted

$240k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+18%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalHealthPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +93%
  • RM
    RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • EI
    EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -55%
  • TL
    The League of Utah Writers The League of Utah Writers
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • AA
    Adopt a Native Elder Foundation Adopt a Native Elder Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Kitty Crusaide

Kitty care neuter or spay and rehome

Animals
3
Utah Swat Inc
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4
Veterinarians Without Borders Usa

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…

International
5
Humane World for Animals Inc

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

Animals
6
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
7
Utah Community Action Partnership Association Inc

The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.

Human Services
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

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…

Unclassified
9
Lake Humane Society

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,…

Animals
10
Aerial Recovery

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,…

—
11
Friends for Animal Care and Effective Solutions

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…

—
12
San Diego Humane Society and Spca

Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Animal Adoption Center; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 52 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVE ME SIGHT FOUNDATION: $33,500 · OtherGIVE ME SIGHT FOUNDATIONLeague of Utah Writers: $31,500 · OtherLeague of Utah WritersUTAH FOOD BANK: $26,500 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADOPT AN ELDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $9,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $6,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORS: $6,500 · Other+26 more: $56,000 · Other+26 moreUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · Human ServicesUTAH POLICE …RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSI…CHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…THE ROAD HOME: $1,500 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,500 · InternationalUNITED ST…OPERATION SMILE INC: $8,000 · InternationalOPERATION…CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $8,000 · InternationalCHILDFUND…HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $7,500 · AnimalsUTAH ANIMAL ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $9,500 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,000 · HealthEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · Science & TechPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $3,000 · Public BenefitUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$193,000Human Services$31,500International$24,500Animals$13,500Health$12,500Science & Tech$7,500Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeague of Utah Writers: $31,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUTAH ANIMAL ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ANIMAL ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗

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.

Kennecott Utah Copper…Sorenson Legacy Found…American Express Foun…Paul and Ruth Lyon Fa…The Archer Family Cha…C Scott & Dorothy E W…McCarthey Family Foun…The Miner FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Pacificorp Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable FoundationUT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ross Charitable Support Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Charitable Support Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Ross Charitable Support Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ross Charitable Support Foundation 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 52 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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