Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Ros Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 123
- Grants FY2024
- 110
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $61M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Ros Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 123 | $3.1M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 110 | $2.7M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $2.2M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $2.2M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 94 | $2.6M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $2.0M | 10% |
| FY2018 | 102 | $2.2M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 100 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $960,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $960,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Impact Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Inc | $675,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Vision Forward Association Incorporated | $559,800 | 8 | 5% |
| Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc | $558,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $480,000 | 8 | n/a |
| National Anti-Vivisection Society | $450,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Revitalize Milwaukee Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Abuse Counseling & Treatment Inc | $375,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $351,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 163 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ros Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus
How this is measured
About The Ros Foundation
- How much does The Ros Foundation give?
- The Ros Foundation reported 123 grants totaling $3,090,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ros Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Animals (14%).
- Who are The Ros Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc ($960k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($960k), Impact Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Inc ($675k).
- Does The Ros Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ros Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ros Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is The Ros Foundation based?
- The Ros Foundation is based in WI.
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