· Private foundation
The Ralph and Marlene Ross Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEVADA BLIND CHILDRENS FDN | $50,000 |
| NEVADA BLIND CHILDRENS FDN | $20,000 |
| IPOF | $20,000 |
| PROF FIRE FIGHTERS OF NV | $20,000 |
| NEVADA BLIND CHILDRENS FDN | $20,000 |
| CEF ORANGE COAST CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SVCS OF SO NV | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ONE TRIBE INC | $2,500 |
| CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- NBNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +167%
- HOHOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +315%
- IPINJURED POLICE OFFICERS FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- E2EIN 20-4388246one grant, 2023 · $20k
- E9EIN 94-3202139one grant, 2022 · $20k
- E8EIN 83-1973282one grant, 2021 · $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.
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
The mission of the chance for hope foundation is to provide support services for children with cancer and their families, funding for pediatric cancer research and treatment, and educational resources to the general public regarding…
The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The children's cancer fund of new mexico exists to help persons from new mexico who have been diagnosed with and treated for childhood cancer (at a new mexico pediatric oncology facility) and their families cope with the day-to-day…
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.
Chmc community health services network ("chsn") is organized and operated exclusively to support cincinnati children's hospital medical center ("cchmc") in cchmc's efforts to provide medical services to all of the children in the community.
This organization is committed to ensuring no one has to face the diagnosis of childhood cancer alone and pledges to provide financial assistance to families of children with cancer during the most difficult time of their lives.
Northern Nevada Hopes provides affordable, high-quality, medical, behavioral health, and support services for all. We are dedicated to building a healthier community by providing coordinated care and support for individuals and family…
Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they concentrate on what is most important - fighting for their child's life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is ChemoCars Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 NEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INJURED POLICE OFFICERS FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ChemoCars Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
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: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ralph and Marlene Ross Foundation 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.
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