· Private foundation
Ross Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k22 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $771k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DE SMET JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $1,285,000 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $270,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $145,000 |
| STAGES ST LOUIS | $125,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS | $100,000 |
| RUNG FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| TEAM ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL KIDS INC | $35,000 |
| STE GENEVIEVE DU BOIS CHURCH | $32,000 |
| GO TO NATIONS | $32,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE ANNUNZIATA | $30,000 |
| ST LOUIS ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - KENRICK-GLENNON | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $814k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Ross Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 79%.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 17 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +72%
- SSSTAGES ST LOUIS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +162% · 40% of their budget
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UPUNLIMITED PLAY INCone grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -20%
- SMST MARY & ST LOUIS ABBEYone grant, 2020 · $30k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
St. Luke's Health Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established to develop philanthropic resources that support St. Luke's mission "To improve the health of people in the communities we serve." We're responsible for cultivating…
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 114 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 CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds RUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TEAM ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFE TEEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Joshua Chamberlain Society ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ross Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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