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The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc

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.

$93k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$93k75%
FY20239$50k67%
FY20226$57k50%
FY20212$30k100%
FY20205$61k80%
FY20196$115k83%
FY20182$21k100%
FY20174$56kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$297kHealth$172kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation Inc$85,00041%
Glenville State University Foundation Inc$50,00021%
Alderson Broaddus University Inc$40,00020%
Davis Health System Foundation Inc$35,00032%
Pierpont Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
West Virginia Wesleyan College$20,00010%
Fairmont State Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Pierpont Community and Technical College$20,0001n/a
Davis Health System Inc$10,00015%
The University of Charleston Inc$10,00010%
Coalton Volunteer Fire Department$5,00011%
Emma Scott Garden Club Inc$1,00011%
Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment$1,0001n/a
Ohio Valley University Inc$1,0001n/a
Tygart Valley Homestead Association Inc$50010%

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCabell Huntington Hospital Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGlenville State University Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAlderson Broaddus University Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDavis Health System Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWest Virginia Wesleyan College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairmont State Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDavis Health System Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe University of Charleston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalton Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEmma Scott Garden Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTygart Valley Homestead Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Eqt FoundationPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eqt Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Maier Foundation Inc · Ritton Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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About The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc give?
The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $93,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (36%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).
Who are The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation Inc ($85k), Glenville State University Foundation Inc ($50k), Alderson Broaddus University Inc ($40k).
Does The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc 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 The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eqt Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc.
Where is The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc based?
The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc is based in WV.

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 38 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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