· Private foundation
The Howard Ross Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friendship Circle International | $8,800 |
| Turning Pointe Autism Foundation | $2,275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Susan G Komen Foundation | $650 |
| PlayThinks | $250 |
| Jewish Sacred Society | $250 |
| Friedman Place | $175 |
| Chicago Botanical Garden | $155 |
| (Congregation) Beis Medrash Mikor Hachaim | $150 |
| Congregation KINS | $150 |
| The Hebron Fund | $100 |
| Torah Anytime | $45 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $995 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +11%
- TPTURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +72%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $800
- STShari Tzdek Miskan Yair Congregationone grant, 2023 · $700
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOone grant, 2023 · $650 · revenue +2%
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.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Keren hayeshivot trust supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
Believing that every jewish child needs and deserves to grow up in a stable and healthy home environment, and that the fabric of that home is woven from material, emotional and religious threads, one family chicago is committed to…
Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to advocate, teach, and promote the study and practice of orthodox judaism, supervise kosher food production worldwide, provide a beth din court of rabbis for interpretation of jewish law,…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYTHINKS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SACRED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds LIBENU ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Arthur & Sally Dordek Charitable Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · Lev Zahav NFP · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Walder Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howard Ross Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Ross Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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