Missouri · Private foundation
Ross Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $261k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ross Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $261k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $262k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $260k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $291k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $266k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $245k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $234k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $241k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity School of Christianity | $107,263 | 7 | n/a |
| PKD Foundation | $97,650 | 8 | 0% |
| International Relations Council | $70,000 | 5 | 7% |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $32,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridging the Gap Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pieces Peaces | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Spofford | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity School of Christianity | $107,263 | 7 | n/a |
| PKD Foundation | $97,650 | 8 | 0% |
| International Relations Council | $70,000 | 5 | 7% |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $32,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridging the Gap Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pieces Peaces | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Spofford | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Principia Corporation | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America Gateway Chapter | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gardens at Unity Village | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| His Helping Hands | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ross Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ross Foundation
- How much does Ross Foundation give?
- Ross Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $261,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ross Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Health (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Ross Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Unity School of Christianity ($107k), PKD Foundation ($98k), International Relations Council ($70k).
- Does Ross Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ross Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ross Foundation based?
- Ross Foundation is based in MO.
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