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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.

$773k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$305k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MPhilanthropy$335kEducation$312kHealth$194kInternational$150kReligion$99kHuman Services$39kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
  • $250k+1 grant · $305k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$677k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION$25,000
THE BARNES 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA$10,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$10,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $3k → 17%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
AZ
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 50 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
22

Total granted

$2.3M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 HISTORY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +123%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +14%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $144k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +133%
  • PN
    PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • SI
    SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
3
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

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…

Human Services
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
The Paley Center for Media

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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…

Religion
10
New York University

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.

Education
11
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
51/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,036,120 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORYPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $178,350 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATIONSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $70,965 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $237,400 · Arts & Culture+19 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $160,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $110,125 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $52,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm…+2 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $305,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …+4 more: $12,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETT…RODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATION: $49,270 · OtherRODEPH SHALO…HILLEL AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherHILLEL AT DR…PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $15,000 · OtherMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Other+45 more: $123,130 · Other+45 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $144,000 · International+2 more: $3,500 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $38,700 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $15,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · Health+8 more: $10,850 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY: $1,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$1,727,835Philanthropy$329,125Education$317,000Other$332,400International$147,500Health$79,550Public Safety & Disaster$26,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,036,120 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $305,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $178,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $144,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $110,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $70,965 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $38,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $12,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMDRC: $9,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Federation of …The Philadelphia Foun…The Saramar Charitabl…Erlbaum Family Founda…The Snider FoundationJewish Community Fede…Anderson Family Found…Katz Family Charitabl…The Specter FoundationHamilton Family Found…The Barra Foundation …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ross Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Ross Family Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ross Family Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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