Washington · Private foundation
Ross Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $43k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Ross Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $43k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $46k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $83k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $39k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $26k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $44k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klickitat Valley Health Memorial Foundation | $23,100 | 3 | 22% |
| Friends of the Klickitat County Fair | $10,100 | 1 | 53% |
| COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Farms | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Christ the King Lutheran Church | $5,700 | 6 | n/a |
| All Things Kabuki Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wishram P R I D E | $600 | 1 | n/a |
| Fathers House Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Goldendale Pregnancy Resource Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| America Legion | $500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klickitat Valley Health Memorial Foundation | $23,100 | 3 | 22% |
| Friends of the Klickitat County Fair | $10,100 | 1 | 53% |
| COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Farms | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Christ the King Lutheran Church | $5,700 | 6 | n/a |
| All Things Kabuki Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wishram P R I D E | $600 | 1 | n/a |
| Fathers House Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Goldendale Pregnancy Resource Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| America Legion | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| WA High School Equestrian Teams | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Special Children's Projects Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Ultimook | $217 | 1 | 0% |
| Goldendale Golf Club | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ross Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Ross Foundation
- How much does Ross Foundation give?
- Ross Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $42,796 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Ross Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (26%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Ross Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Klickitat Valley Health Memorial Foundation ($23k), Friends of the Klickitat County Fair ($10k), COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ($10k).
- Does Ross Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ross Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ross Foundation based?
- Ross Foundation is based in WA.
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