· Private foundation
Ross Family Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY | $304,720 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $70,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $46,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $16,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +123%- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +14%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $144k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- KCKIMMEL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +133%
- PNPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +6%
- SISIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Anderson Family Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Specter Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ross Family Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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