· Private foundation
Ross Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS | $30,000 |
| THE LAND INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY | $25,000 |
| GIVEWELL | $20,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| CHIX 4 A CAUSE | $10,000 |
| KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST SANTA CRUZ | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA COMMUNITY CARING CENTER | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ PUBLIC LIBRARIES | $5,000 |
| NATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Ross Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 14 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Relations Council5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +46%
- KCKansas City CARE Clinic7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +176%
- KCKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION MILLING LABone grant, 2017 · $60k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Incone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue 0%
- USUNITY SCHOOL - EDU BLDG PROJ & ARCHIVESone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
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.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Bike walk kc's mission is to redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. our vision is a greater kansas city where everyone moves through the city and its public spaces equitably, safely, comfortably, and…
The Kansas Health Foundation operates based on the following three-part purpose statement: 1. Empower Kansas to lead the nation in health. 2. Eliminate the inequities that lead to the greatest health disparities. 3. To become THE model for…
To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Kansas city community gardens is dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegatables. the member gardners develop…
To preserve, protect and advance kansas pharmacy practice through education, engagement and advocacy.
The organization's mission is to create, recruit, grow and retain technology and bioscience businesses in northeast kansas with the ultimate vision to build a more modern, resilient and diverse regional economy.
In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 84 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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