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DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION
DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation does
Programs
Playwrights Program -- An annual program to identify and support new works of theater. In 2024 the Foundation produced two developmental readings--Everything I Learned in America I Learned on Grindr by Yilong Liu and SNORE by Max Posner. Professional casting services were provided for each reading and in-depth discussions with cast and creatives invited in consultation with the playwrights. The scale and emphasis of each reading differed depending on the needs of the respective script. Everything I Learned was approached with an eye to ongoing revisions while SNORE was presented to an invited industry audience to solicit feedback and also invite future commercial sponsorship or production from NYC theaters. It is our belief that these readings provided valuable opportunities which increased the likelihood of these worthy authors works being produced and thus coming to greater public attention.
$18,735 spentHitchens Prize -- Awarded annually to an author journalist or thinker whose career reflects a commitment to 1st Amendment values exemplified by the life and work of author Christopher Hitchens. In 2024 the Prize was awarded to documentarian and author ERROL MORRIS in recognition of a long career of probing challenging films which interrogate received narratives and biases. As in years past the Prize was awarded at a ceremony in New York City. Morriss speech--published simultaneously in The Atlantic Monthly and Air Mail magazine--touched on the theme of break[ing] out of solipsism and pursu[ing] a truth we dont really know even if its a truth about ourselves.
$62,902 spentMusic Festival Support--In summer 2024 the Foundation partnered to sponsor a series of concerts and performances with the Silver Bay International Festival and the Hamptons Festival of Music. In future years the Foundation hopes to continue to expand into this new area of artistic educational endeavor consistent with our core mission of bringing important thinkers and artists to a broader public audience.
$24,345 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.6M to $5.3M (−5%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $300.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $425 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION?
- DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,425 in grants to DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENNIS & VICTORIA ROSS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing