· Private foundation
The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $2,000 |
| WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| THE RECORDER NEWS | $500 |
| OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BEDFORD 2030 | $500 |
| BEDFORD HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +98%- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +31%
- WLWestchester Land Trust Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +46%
- BFBRIDGE FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SASTUDENT ADVOCACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +52%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 75 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD 2030 INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds KATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD HILLS FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE IN WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM 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: 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
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 Nancy and Paul Ross 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.