Michigan · Private foundation
Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation
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.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $69,947
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 9 | $230k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $91k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $123k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $179k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $157k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $89k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $47k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $233k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Garden Party Ross | $276,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Michigan State University | $137,000 | 7 | n/a |
| College for Creative Studies | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Michigan Men's Health Foundation | $69,947 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Emanu-El | $54,576 | 1 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Great Decorate | $40,000 | 4 | 29% |
| Yeshivas Ohr V'Daas | $37,800 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Healthcare Charity Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Garden Party Ross | $276,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Michigan State University | $137,000 | 7 | n/a |
| College for Creative Studies | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Michigan Men's Health Foundation | $69,947 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Emanu-El | $54,576 | 1 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Great Decorate | $40,000 | 4 | 29% |
| Yeshivas Ohr V'Daas | $37,800 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Healthcare Charity Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yatooma's Foundation for the Kids Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 4% |
| The Mirasol Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Payne - Pulliam School of Trade & Commerce | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Preservation Bloomfield | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
Compare Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation with peer funders
About Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation
- How much does Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation give?
- Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $229,523 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Environment (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Miami ($400k), The Garden Party Ross ($276k), Michigan State University ($137k).
- Does Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family 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 Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation based?
- Sydney and Elizabeth Ross Family Foundation is based in MI.
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