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The Irene Herbert Ross and Harper Grant Ross Foundation Co Michael K Rutter Esq at a glance

· Private foundation

The Irene Herbert Ross and Harper Grant Ross Foundation Co Michael K Rutter Esq

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.5MHealth$102kReligion$41kCrime & Legal$36kFood & Nutrition$25kSocial Science$16kPublic Benefit$6kScience & Tech$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,426,295
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yale University$1,426,295
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Lupus Research Alliance: $2k → 17%Parkinson's Foundation: $3k → 15%Colebrook Congregational Church: $10k → 9%Rutgers Preparatory School: $2k → 5%Grace Presbyterian Church: $4k → 8%Disabled American Veterans Charitab: $3k → 10%Lupus Research Alliance: $2k → 17%Parkinson's Foundation: $3k → 15%Colebrook Congregational Church: $5k → 9%Rutgers Preparatory School: $2k → 5%Arthritis Foundation New Jersey Cha: $2k → 8%Disabled American Veterans Charitab: $3k → 10%Lupus Research Alliance: $2k → 17%Parkinson's Foundation: $3k → 15%Colebrook Congregational Church: $5k → 9%Rutgers Preparatory School: $2k → 5%Grace Presbyterian Church: $4k → 8%Lupus Research Alliance: $2k → 17%Parkinson's Foundation: $3k → 15%Colebrook Congregational Church: $5k → 9%The ALS Association: $3k → 17%Grace Presbyterian Church: $4k → 8%The ALS Association: $3k → 17%The ALS Association: $3k → 17%Grace Presbyterian Church: $4k → 8%The ALS Association: $3k → 17%Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jer: $10k → 8%Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jer: $10k → 8%Elijahs Promise: $10k → 8%Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jer: $7k → 8%Rutgers University Foundation: $6k → 8%Rutgers University Foundation: $6k → 8%Elijahs Promise: $5k → 8%Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jer: $5k → 8%Elijahs Promise: $5k → 8%Elijahs Promise: $5k → 8%Middlesex County Bar Foundation: $4k → 8%Middlesex County Bar Foundation: $4k → 8%Middlesex County Bar Foundation: $4k → 8%Middlesex County Bar Foundation: $4k → 8%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3k → 8%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3k → 8%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3k → 8%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3k → 8%Waksman Institute: $5k → 8%Waksman Institute: $5k → 8%Waksman Institute: $3k → 8%Waksman Institute: $3k → 8%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.
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$322k · 21 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +77% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
1

Total granted

$322k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+77%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • EP
    Elijahs Promise Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +124%
  • MC
    MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +289%

Funded once

  • MH
    MELVYN H MOTOLINSKY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +77%
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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
10
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Melvyn H Motolinsky Research Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $1,426,295 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY+11 more: $195,000 · Other+11 moreLEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalMIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Crime & LegalTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 · HealthMELVYN H MOTOLINSKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationRUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationElijahs Promise Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $6,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,621,295Crime & Legal$36,000Health$34,000Education$28,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Public Benefit$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetElijahs Promise Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER'S FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMELVYN H MOTOLINSKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

  • Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
  • Who funds ST PETER'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MELVYN H MOTOLINSKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…Magyarbank Charitable…Princeton Area Commun…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Magyarbank Charitable Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Irene Herbert Ross and Harper Grant Ross Foundation Co Michael K Rutter Esq funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irene Herbert Ross and Harper Grant Ross Foundation Co Michael K Rutter Esq. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Legal Services of New Jersey Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Elijahs Promise Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 23 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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