· Public charity
Ross Family Foundation
The mission of the ROSS FAMILY FOUNDATION is to act as a supporting organization of the greater kansas city community foundation with respect to charitable activities of the community foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Ross Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Ross Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL | $2,273,500 |
| ST THERESE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESS OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH | $166,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC | $150,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST JOSEPH | $150,000 |
| SAINT GABRIEL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST PATRICK PARISH AND SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST ANDREW THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC PARISH | $100,000 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL SISTERS OF CHRIST THE KING | $45,519 |
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 (FY19–19, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $4.9M
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY-ST JOSEPH3× · 2017–2019 · $1.7M
- BOBENEDICTINES OF MARY QUEEN OF APOSTLES3× · 2017–2020 · $550k
Funded once
- DMDIVINE MERCY PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $997k · revenue ×29
- CRCATHOLIC RADIO NETWORK INCone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -28%
- SAST ANDREW THE APOSTLEone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 16 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.
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Bright Futures Fund · Foundation for Inclusive Religious Education Inc · Oracle Health Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Servant Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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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