Illinois · Private foundation
Ross Family 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.
- $119k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $422k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Ross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 15 | $116k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $95k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $95k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $88k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $52k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $40k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $41k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $63,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Openlands | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
| St Leonard's Ministries | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Winnetka Community House Inc | $15,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Strides for Peace Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ross Family 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Tinberg Foundation · Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · Greater Chicago Food Depository · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Barbour Family Foundation · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · Forefront
How this is measured
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About Ross Family Foundation
- How much does Ross Family Foundation give?
- Ross Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $118,994 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Ross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance for the Great Lakes ($63k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($42k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($26k).
- Does Ross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation, Tinberg Foundation.
- Where is Ross Family Foundation based?
- Ross Family Foundation is based in IL.
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