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Ross Stores Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2026still arriving
140
Grants FY2026still arriving
33
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Youth Development$9.9MEducation$4.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$557kFood & Nutrition$556kInternational$468kCivil Rights$452kOther$0
02FY2026 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k70 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $574k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$1,603,333
FIRST BOOK$366,700
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$210,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$153,558
GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$50,000
CHILDREN RISING$30,000
NEW DOOR VENTURES$30,000
URBAN ANGELS SF$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE$30,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY$30,000
HACK THE HOOD$30,000
UASPIRE$30,000
COALITION FOR ENGAGED EDUCATION$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WINGS FOR KIDS: $20k → 12%OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS: $30k → 10%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $6k → 18%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $30k → 9%WINGS FOR KIDS: $20k → 12%YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5k → 13%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $5k → 18%MY NEW RED SHOES: $5k → 7%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $30k → 10%WINGS FOR KIDS: $10k → 12%OURBRIDGE INC: $20k → 10%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $5k → 18%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $5k → 18%THE CIRCUIT EPA: $20k → 8%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $4k → 18%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $800k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $400k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $400k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $200k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $30k → 10%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 14%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $30k → 10%HILLSIDES: $30k → 14%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $30k → 10%HILLSIDES: $30k → 14%URBAN ANGELS SF: $30k → 10%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BERKELEY CALIFORNIA: $20k → 10%HIVELY: $30k → 10%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $30k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $30k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $30k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $30k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $20k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 143 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

143 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2026, 60 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

143
304

Total granted

$16M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+6%

Still filing today

72%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $643k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    6× · 2021–2026 · $6.6M · revenue +5%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2021–2026 · $1.9M · revenue +27%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
    6× · 2021–2026 · $395k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2025 · $350k · revenue 0%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +24%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue -61%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
2
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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3
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
4
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
5
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
6
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
7
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
8
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
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Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
10
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
11
Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc

Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.

International
12
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed; the most unlike its peers is Bbp Gem Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

345 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 345 of the 510 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
334/345
Grantees still filing
202/345
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $6,619,166 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICABOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $394,960 · Youth Development+18 more: $924,100 · Youth Development+18 moreFIRST BOOK: $1,984,150 · EducationFIRST BOOKSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $120,000 · EducationAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $120,000 · Education+34 more: $1,162,044 · Education+34 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,920,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $120,000 · Human Services+28 more: $866,037 · Human Services+28 moreTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $261,525 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLI…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $250,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL…ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherBABY BUGGY AKA GOOD FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME: $140,300 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $175,000 · OtherNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $175,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $150,000 · Other+91 more: $2,352,208 · Other+91 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $781,006 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $350,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $120,000 · PhilanthropyKRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $600,000 · Recreation & SportsPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $65,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsDIRECT RELIEF: $250,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Northern California: $70,300 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $70,000 · InternationalGOOD360: $15,000 · International
Youth Development$7,938,226Education$3,386,194Human Services$2,906,037Other$3,799,033Philanthropy$1,401,006Recreation & Sports$705,000International$405,300

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $6,619,166 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,984,150 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,920,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $781,006 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $394,960 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $261,525 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: $150,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $140,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN FOUDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $93,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH: $90,400 over 3y, 12% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $90,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPS Science: $90,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA YOUTH SHELTER: $90,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BELL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $90,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT: $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $80,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California: $70,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget826 Valencia: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $65,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMission Bit: $60,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetELEVATE TUTORING INC: $60,400 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $60,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSIDES: $60,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Golden State Communit…The Morris Stulsaft F…Quest FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Bothin FoundationThe Barrios TrustThe San Francisco Fou…Crankstart FoundationBernard E & Alba Witk…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Tipping Point Communi…Atkinson Foundation
Golden State Community FoundationCA48.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Golden State Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Quest Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Barrios Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tipping Point Community · Atkinson Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ross Stores Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross Stores Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Integral Youth Services: 29% of income from government
  • Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc): 21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Arc of Cape May County Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
90report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ross Stores Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 510 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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