Ohio · Nonprofit
ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION
ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,641 to it, the largest being The Mathenaeum Foundation ($114,641). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $894k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Ross Mathematics Foundation does
Mission
The organization's mission, within the scope of its exempt purpose, include: (a) to teach mathematics students in high school and college; (b) to create and disseminate curricular materials to students and schools; (c) to increase the publics access to and understanding of mathematics; and (d) to cooperate with similar groups at statewide, national, and international levels to promote these educational goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Organize and operate a summer school for advanced high school mathematics students. The summer school has a regularly scheduled curriculum consisting of courses in mathematics, and specifically a first-year course in number theory.
$1,050,677 spent$741,877 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,050,677.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $316k to $159k (−50%).
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.
14% of ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
James A Fowler
Executive Director, Treasurer
Board chair
Daniel Shapiro
Director, Chairperson of Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $5k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ROSS MATHEMATICS 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
ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROSS MATHEMATICS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION?
- ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,641 to it, the largest being The Mathenaeum Foundation ($114,641). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $152,641 in grants to ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION?
- The Mathenaeum Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $114,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROSS MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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