· Private foundation
Ross Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICHITA GRAND OPERA | $124,700 |
| HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $122,178 |
| LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| KANSANS FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| FAIRMONT MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| WICHITA CHAMBER CHORALE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WGWICHITA GRAND OPERA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $228k · revenue +233%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +31%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- LBLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -31%
- CACONCORDIA ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- APAURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
To create, maintain, and enhance relationships among wichita state university alumni, current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and friends in order to foster loyalty, interest, and support for the university and for one another.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Organization provides medical education to students and residents, patient care, and conducts research.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The mission of the kansas state university foundation is to secure and prudently manage private gifts in support of kansas state university and foster a culture that unites philanthropic desires with university priorities.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
KU Endowment partners with donors in providing philanthropic support to build a greater University of Kansas.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WICHITA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Kansans For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Grumpy Old Men Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
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: Garvey Kansas Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ross Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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