· Private foundation
The Marshal Verne Ross Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT WHITE CENTRAL TX FDN | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HSC | $90,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $75,000 |
| ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CENTE | $30,000 |
| TEXAS AM SCHOOL OF VET MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| SOS MINISTRIES | $15,500 |
| STILLCREEK RANCH | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| STARLIGHT RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY | $8,000 |
| BUCKNER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOS O S Ministries INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +91%
- TATexas A&M Foundation5× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +49%
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- OCODESSA COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To assist in developing and increasing the facilities of texas tech university by and through activities of the texas tech alumni association. the goal is the advancement of higher education and broader educational opportunities including…
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
The Foundation was formed to be a vital partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville by developing donor relationships and linking resources in the pursuit of the University's goals of excellence.Values: Service to the University and the…
The purpose of the university research foundation is to promote texas state university's objectives of providing higher education, conducting research, providing public service, and assisting in economic development in texas.
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSVIEW CHRISTIAN CAMP & RETREAT ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cavalry Soccer ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Hoomau Fire Academy ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marshal Verne Ross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marshal Verne Ross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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