Ohio · Private foundation
Ross Foundation 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.
- $468k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $355,556
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $135k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Ross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 6 | $468k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $947k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $497k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $173k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $98k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $69k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $137k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Erie Nature and Science Center | $100,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Blessing House | $90,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Lorain County Community College | $24,133 | 2 | n/a |
| Historic Grafton School Inc | $21,283 | 1 | n/a |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voices for Children | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grafton Grapplers Club LLC | $17,190 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Good Knights Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Grafton Township Fire and EMS Foundation Inc | $13,802 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ross Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn · Lakeland Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc · The Stocker Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Ross Foundation Inc
- How much does Ross Foundation Inc give?
- Ross Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $468,282 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ross Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (65%), Arts & Culture (10%), Education (9%).
- Who are Ross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lake Erie Nature and Science Center ($100k), Blessing House ($90k), Lorain County Community College ($24k).
- Does Ross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Lorain County, The Nord Family Foundation, The Nordson Corporation Foundation.
- Where is Ross Foundation Inc based?
- Ross Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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