Missouri · Private foundation
Ross Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,285,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 66
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $27M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Ross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $4.5M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Smet Jesuit High School | $1,502,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation | $1,500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Stages St Louis | $1,329,000 | 5 | 40% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $1,135,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis University | $682,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | $520,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis | $485,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Archdiocese of St Louis | $300,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Rung Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 10% |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ross Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · St Louis Community Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ross Family Foundation
- How much does Ross Family Foundation give?
- Ross Family Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $4,478,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Ross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: De Smet Jesuit High School ($1.5M), Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation ($1.5M), Stages St Louis ($1.3M).
- Does Ross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri.
- Where is Ross Family Foundation based?
- Ross Family Foundation is based in MO.
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