Ohio · 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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,811
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,586
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Ross Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $154k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $156k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $139k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $210k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $243,835 | 7 | 0% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $106,519 | 7 | 0% |
| Taft Museum of Art | $90,292 | 7 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $88,462 | 7 | 0% |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $85,298 | 7 | 0% |
| Fairhaven Rescue Mission | $85,298 | 7 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $77,138 | 7 | 0% |
| Church of the Nativity | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Our Daily Bread | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $243,835 | 7 | 0% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $106,519 | 7 | 0% |
| Taft Museum of Art | $90,292 | 7 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $88,462 | 7 | 0% |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $85,298 | 7 | 0% |
| Fairhaven Rescue Mission | $85,298 | 7 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $77,138 | 7 | 0% |
| Church of the Nativity | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Our Daily Bread | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Crayons and Beyond Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Mary Magdalen Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Interchurch Organization Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ross Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Ross Charitable Trust
- How much does The Ross Charitable Trust give?
- The Ross Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $153,999 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ross Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Arts & Culture (26%), Food & Nutrition (25%).
- Who are The Ross Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Freestore Foodbank Inc ($244k), Alice Lloyd College ($107k), Taft Museum of Art ($90k).
- Does The Ross Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ross Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ross Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is The Ross Charitable Trust based?
- The Ross Charitable Trust is based in OH.
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