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The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$402kReligion$294kArts & Culture$242kEducation$158kRecreation & Sports$96kHuman Services$95kYouth Development$55kInternational$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$53,000
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND$36,000
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION$20,000
PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE$13,600
PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$12,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$11,800
ISRAEL TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL$5,005
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$4,000
THE GORDON SCHOOL$1,800
EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION$1,800
JEWISH BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER$1,800
SANDRA BERNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER$1,800
HOW FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 6%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 6%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $100k → 14%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 12%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $200 → 6%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $40k → 14%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $180 → 6%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $36k → 14%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $180 → 17%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 30 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
37

Total granted

$1.0M
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+34%

Still filing today

60%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JA
    JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND
    3× · 2019–2024 · $176k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +8%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    one grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue -39%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • WH
    WINGATE HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
8
Beth Israel Medical Center

Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…

Health
9
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
12
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eugene Zitwer Foundation 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

44 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. 44 of the 71 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $134,650 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCISRAEL TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · OtherISRAEL TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION INCNEW ENGLAND RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC: $89,400 · OtherNEW ENGLAND RABBINICAL COLLEGE INCMOSES BROWN SCHOOL: $88,000 · OtherMOSES BROWN SCHOOLALWAYS OUR KIDS (AOK): $54,700 · OtherALWAYS OUR KIDS (AOK)JEWISH FEDERATION OF RHODE ISLAND: $35,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF RHODE ISLANDTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $31,920 · OtherCHABAD OF RHODE ISLAND: $21,600 · Other+32 more: $68,260 · Other+32 moreJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $176,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ALLIANCE OF G…MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $80,070 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE FOUNDATION…+4 more: $2,810 · Human ServicesNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $165,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Conte…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $41,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF AR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $9,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,780 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $165,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $18,700 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm B…+2 more: $4,300 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $34,300 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $26,130 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE: $25,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $950 · EducationPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $5,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250 · Health+1 more: $150 · Health
Other$618,530Human Services$258,880Arts & Culture$242,030Philanthropy$188,500International$85,930Education$28,450Health$7,400

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 budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $176,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $165,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $165,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $80,070 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $34,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $26,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $18,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $12,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $9,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $5,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $4,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gordon School: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $880 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARING THE OVARIAN CANCER WHISPER INC: $850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report 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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How do I get to The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Darrell & Susan Ross Charitable 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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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