· Private foundation
Ross Family Legacy Foundation Charitable Tr Dtd 01-16-09
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of Ross Family Legacy Foundation Charitable Tr Dtd 01-16-09’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Huntington Beach Youth Shelter | $5,000 |
| Able Arts Work | $5,000 |
| Long Beach Organic Inc | $5,000 |
| KW Cares | $5,000 |
| CDA Futbol Club | $4,000 |
| Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Ma | $2,500 |
| Beyond Blindness | $2,180 |
| Hillel of Long Beach | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY19–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TWTiger Woods Charity2× · 2017–2020 · $40k
- RRRonald Regan Presidential Foundatio2× · 2018–2020 · $39k
- AOAssumption of the Blessed Virgin Ma3× · 2019–2021 · $13k
Funded once
- RFROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +69%
- SHSecond Harvest Food Bankone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CCCATERINAS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
To advance the science of jurisprudence; to establish a closer relationship of the members with the state bar association of california; to promote the administration of justice and the uniformity of legislation and judicial decisions; to…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Support, educate, organize, administrate and develop southern california youth to achieve their highest potential through the game of soccer.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…
The organization provides an opportunity for los angeles area youth to learn and play soccer. the organization is committed to helping everyone involved with the club to develop as people and players by teaching and living the club values…
Lamorinda Soccer Club (LMSC) is a youth soccer club that prioritizes long-term player development through technical, tactical, mental and physical training. LMSC participates in top leagues locally and nationally including WPSL, MLS Next,…
The organization provides residential and vocation support to persons with developmental disabilities.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beyond Blindness and the most unlike its peers is Long Beach Organic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK ↗
- Who funds KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ORGANIC INC ↗
- Who funds CATERINAS CLUB ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds CDA FUTBOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
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: William Ross Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Legacy Foundation Charitable Tr Dtd 01-16-09 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.
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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