· Private foundation
The William and Sue Gross Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $845k
- $250k+13 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $4,000,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA | $2,000,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE | $2,000,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $2,000,000 |
| NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND | $1,460,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $1,452,000 |
| VII ASSOCIATION INC | $1,425,000 |
| SDSN ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $500,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT | $500,000 |
| ROAR FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| UNITED PHOTO INDUSTRIES | $264,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $220,000 |
| JAMES HINES TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE VII FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SDSN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds ROAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Photo Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRONG FOODLA KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The William and Sue Gross Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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