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The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$3,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$2,000
WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST$2,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$2,000
PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$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
BEDFORD HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
MT KISCO VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE$500
CORNELL LAB CHAIRMANS COUNCIL$500
THE RECORDER NEWS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%DOROT: $300 → 17%DOROT: $250 → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
MO
KY
VA
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$297k · 43 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
28

Total granted

$297k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +98%
  • FW
    FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +31%
  • WL
    Westchester Land Trust Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +46%
  • BF
    BRIDGE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SA
    STUDENT ADVOCACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +52%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Fordham University

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.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

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…

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Wamc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $40,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGEBRIDGE FUND: $10,000 · OtherBRIDGE FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $7,000 · OtherSMITH COLLEGE FUND: $6,400 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND: $10,000 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND+43 more: $67,125 · Other+43 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KIT…Westchester Land Trust Inc: $27,000 · EnvironmentWestcheste…BEDFORD 2030 INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentBEDFORD 20…OUTWARD BOUND INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentOUTWARD BO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,000 · HealthDana-Farb…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · HealthNORTHERN …KATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP: $3,250 · HealthKATONAH-B…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN …HOSPICE CARE IN WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM INC: $2,000 · HealthHOSPICE C…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · HealthNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $4,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $2,500 · EducationBEDFORD HILLS FREE LIBRARY: $2,500 · EducationCornell University: $2,250 · EducationMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $450 · Philanthropy
Other$165,525International$54,000Environment$33,500Health$29,250Arts & Culture$25,500Education$22,250Philanthropy$20,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 THE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEDFORD HILLS FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM 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.

Bauer Family Foundati…Yvonne & Leslie Polla…Jandon FoundationPeckham Family Founda…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldstein Family …The Braewold FundThe ZelnickBelzberg C…Louis and Anne Abrons…The New York Communit…St Faith's House Foun…The Ralph and Ricky L…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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