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The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$48k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving19$21k21%
FY202419$30k11%
FY202326$29k23%
FY202228$52k18%
FY202130$59k20%
FY202023$34k26%
FY201924$46k13%
FY201832$35k38%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$55kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$44kInternational$40kEnvironment$37kArts & Culture$30kPhilanthropy$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
MO
KY
VA
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$40,00050%
Feeding Westchester Inc$40,00070%
Westchester Land Trust Inc$27,00090%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$15,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$14,00030%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$13,00020%
Fresh Air Fund$10,00080%
New York Public Radio$9,00060%
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc$8,00070%
The Hagedorn Little Village School$7,00070%
Northern Westchester Hospital Association$7,00020%
Katonah Museum of Art$6,00060%
Open Door Foundation Inc$5,00090%
Bedford Hills Fire Department Inc$4,50091%
Ramapo for Children Inc$4,50020%
Bedford 2030 Inc$4,50080%
Breakthrough New York Inc$4,00030%
Neighbors Link Corp$4,00070%
Katonah-Bedford Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corp$3,25070%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$3,00030%
Barnard College$3,00020%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,00030%
Dorot Inc$2,55050%
Student Advocacy Inc$2,50010%
Bedford Hills Free Library$2,50090%
Cornell University$2,25020%
Outward Bound Inc$2,00010%
The Perlman Music Program Inc$2,00010%
Hospice Care in Westchester and Putnam Inc$2,00020%
Community Center of Northern Westchester Inc$1,75070%
Teatown Lake Reservation Inc$1,52540%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,00010%
Emory University$1,0001n/a
Mott Haven Academy Charter School$1,00010%
The Recorder News Inc$5001n/a
Friends of John Jay Homestead$50020%
Police Benevolent Association of the Town of Bedford Inc$50010%
The Buttonwood Foundation Inc$45020%
Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester$25010%
Brewster Education Foundation Inc$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Westchester Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $27,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJacob Burns Film Center Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hagedorn Little Village School: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Westchester Hospital Association: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKatonah Museum of Art: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Door Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Hills Fire Department Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetRamapo for Children Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBedford 2030 Inc: $4,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough New York Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors Link Corp: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKatonah-Bedford Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corp: $3,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Advocacy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBedford Hills Free Library: $2,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOutward Bound Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Perlman Music Program Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Care in Westchester and Putnam Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Center of Northern Westchester Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTeatown Lake Reservation Inc: $1,525 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMott Haven Academy Charter School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of John Jay Homestead: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPolice Benevolent Association of the Town of Bedford Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Buttonwood Foundation Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 37.

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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.

Bauer Family FoundationDE20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bauer Family Foundation · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · Jandon Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldstein Family Foundation · The Braewold Fund · The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · St Faith's House Foundation · The Ralph and Ricky Lauren Family 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 Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc

How much does The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc give?
The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $20,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Health (14%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($40k), Feeding Westchester Inc ($40k), Westchester Land Trust Inc ($27k).
Does The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bauer Family Foundation, Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc, Jandon Foundation.
Where is The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc based?
The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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