· Private foundation
The Ross Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREESTORE FOODBANK INC | $33,586 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,276 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $15,581 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $13,504 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $13,504 |
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $12,811 |
| FAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION | $12,811 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $11,426 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $5,000 |
| MARY MAGDALENE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| HENRY HOSEA HOUSE | $2,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $244k · revenue +30%
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +69%
- TMTAFT MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +1%
Funded once
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.
Cma is dedicated to creating its mission of providing "great experiences with great art for everyone".
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Working together to ensure everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is The Mary Magdalen Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY MAGDALEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION 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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ross Charitable Trust 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.