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The Ross Loan Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
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100% of The Ross Loan Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Foundation For Enhancing Communities, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
0
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$84,322
Largest grant, FY2023
$84,322
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$3.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.2M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES$84,322

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About The Ross Loan Fund

How much does The Ross Loan Fund give?
The Ross Loan Fund reported 1 grants totaling $84,322 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does The Ross Loan Fund fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Does The Ross Loan Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Ross Loan Fund based?
The Ross Loan Fund is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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