· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - JUNE HARLESS CENTER | $2,000 |
| EMMA SCOTT GARDEN CLUB INC | $1,000 |
| NORMA MAE HUGGINS CANCER ENDOWMENT | $1,000 |
| PICKENS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UPSHUR COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $500 |
| MON HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WV BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL INC | $500 |
| BOONE COUNTY CHAPTER OF WVU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| BELINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 12 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +54%
- GSGLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
- ABALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue -119%
Funded once
- GFGSC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- PFPIERPONT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +115%
- PCPIERPONT COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The appalachian state university foundation exists to support appalachian state university students, faculty, staff and community through the advancement of financial support, stewardship, growth of resources, and advocacy for the…
To further the purposes and aspirations of the college and graduate school of arts & sciences at the university of virginia, by advising and supporting the dean, raising funds and promoting excellence and jeffersonian distinction.
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Davenport university prepares individuals and organizations to excel in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foundation supports the mission of the university of virginia school of engineering and applied science by leading efforts to build and sustain beneficial relationships and by raising, investing, managing and providing external private…
To support the educational, scientific and charitable activities of virginia commonwealth university and related organizations.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Provide scholarships to west virginia university students
The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairmont State Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalton Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIERPONT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds COALTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA SCOTT GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Tygart Valley Homestead Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.