Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Ross Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $239k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 109
- Grants FY2025
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 109
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Ross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 102 | $219k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 95 | $192k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $217k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $186k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 103 | $174k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $202k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties | $118,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Quintessence Theatre Group Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Keystone College | $75,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Philharmonic Society of Nepa | $45,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Countryside Conservancy | $31,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Johnson College | $29,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art | $25,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Wrc Inc | $24,450 | 6 | 0% |
| Geisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Outreach - Center for Community Resources | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($456k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ross Family Foundation 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: The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Eureka Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation · Allone Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Ppl Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ross Family Foundation
- How much does The Ross Family Foundation give?
- The Ross Family Foundation reported 109 grants totaling $238,933 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 109 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Ross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties ($118k), Quintessence Theatre Group Inc ($95k), Keystone College ($76k).
- Does The Ross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ross Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hawk Family Foundation, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Robert H Spitz Foundation.
- Where is The Ross Family Foundation based?
- The Ross Family Foundation is based in PA.
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