· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ross Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ross Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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