West Virginia · Private foundation
The Ross Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Ross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 20 | $5.4M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $8.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $5.4M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.2M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.0M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.9M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $1.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Museum of the Mov Inc | $10,525,000 | 6 | 96% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $3,221,380 | 7 | 0% |
| Downtown Pkb Inc | $1,217,000 | 7 | 73% |
| Actors Guild of Parkersburg Inc | $333,332 | 4 | 44% |
| Community Resources Inc | $262,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Boys Club of Parkersburg Inc | $204,709 | 8 | 8% |
| The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc | $202,212 | 2 | 12% |
| Humane Society of Parkersburg | $170,250 | 7 | 4% |
| Parkersburg Art Center Inc | $136,758 | 3 | 22% |
| City of Parkersburg | $89,278 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ross Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Deitzler Foundation Inc · Spartan Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · Marietta Community Foundation Inc · The Virginia L Neptune Charitable Foundation · Fenton Foundation Inc · United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ross Foundation Inc
- How much does The Ross Foundation Inc give?
- The Ross Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $5,370,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ross Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (40%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are The Ross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Museum of the Mov Inc ($11M), West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Downtown Pkb Inc ($1.2M).
- Does The Ross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ross Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ross Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc), Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc, Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc.
- Where is The Ross Foundation Inc based?
- The Ross Foundation Inc is based in WV.
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