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DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC

DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE KENNETH K KINSEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$37k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$259k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Donald Ross Society Foundation Inc does

Mission

The foundation's primary exempt purposes include the support of historical and archival research on golf architecture and to support the restoration and maintenance of municipal golf courses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To provide financial support for the restoration of golf courses originally designed by donald ross.

    $0 spentof which $75,000 as grants
  2. To provide grant for maintenance of donald ross golf drawings, designs & archives.

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($795) Net assets 100 ($146k)2018 Revenue 103 ($22k) Expenses 2505 ($20k) Net assets 109 ($160k)2019 Revenue 308 ($67k) Expenses 3846 ($31k) Net assets 138 ($201k)2020 Revenue 121 ($26k) Expenses 4726 ($38k) Net assets 137 ($200k)2021 Revenue 157 ($34k) Expenses 7494 ($60k) Net assets 128 ($187k)2022 Revenue 350 ($76k) Expenses 5104 ($41k) Net assets 139 ($204k)2023 Revenue 286 ($62k) Expenses 7619 ($61k) Net assets 151 ($221k)2024 Revenue 236 ($51k) Expenses 3846 ($31k) Net assets 189 ($277k)2025 Revenue 169 ($37k) Expenses 9513 ($76k) Net assets 177 ($259k)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (9513)Net assets (177)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $204k to $287k (+40%).

$146k
$208k
$221k
$204k
$287k
$294k
$271k
$302k
$297k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
$2k
’18
$36k
’19
−$11k
’20
−$26k
’21
$35k
’22
$1k
’23
$21k
’24
−$39k
’25
33
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.

IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−106% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE KENNETH K KINSEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
THE KENNETH K KINSEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DONALD ROSS SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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