· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - JUNE HARLESS CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EMMA SCOTT GARDEN CLUB INC | $1,000 |
| PICKENS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NORMA MAE HUGGINS CANCER ENDOWMENT | $1,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY CHAPTER OF WVU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| UPSHUR COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $500 |
| MON HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WV BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL INC | $500 |
| BELINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +69%
- GSGLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
- ABALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue -119%
Funded once
- PFPIERPONT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +115%
- GFGSC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- PCPIERPONT COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $20k
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 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…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds COALTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds EMMA SCOTT GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Tygart Valley Homestead Association 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike Ross Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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