The Darrell & Susan Ross
Palm Beach, FL · EIN 05-6125455. Reported 90 grants totalling $819,380 to 52 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Darrell & Susan Ross did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $10,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $165,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art | New York, NY | $165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue | Palm Beach, FL | $122,850 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach | West Palm Beach, FL | $109,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Morselife Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $48,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moses Brown School | Providence, RI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New England Rabbinical College | Providence, RI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $26,130 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Always Our Kids (aok) | Brooklyn, NY | $21,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Israel Tennis Center Foundation Inc | Deerfield Beach, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew University | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $19,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Temple Emanu-El | Providence, RI | $16,590 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Norton Museum of Art | West Palm Beach, FL | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Israel Museum | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $14,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Country Club Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $9,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | New York, NY | $7,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chabad of Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $7,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Eugene Zitwer Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $5,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| John Thomas Dye School | Los Angeles, CA | $5,005 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandra Bernstein Holocaust Education Center | Providence, RI | $4,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov | Brooklyn, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $3,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| How Foundation | Tulsa, OK | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Prep for Prep | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uja Federation Ny | New York, NY | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Big Brother Big Sister | Waltham, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Gordon School | East Providence, RI | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Denver Active 20-30 Children's Foundation | Denver, CO | $1,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| William D Finneran Student Opportunity Fund | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach Center to Combat Antisemitism and Hatred | West Palm Beach, FL | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of New York | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kelly Brush Foundation | Burlington, VT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rising Treetops at Oakhurst | Oakhurst, NJ | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center | Greenvale, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Congregation Keneseth Israel | Allentown, PA | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow | Suffern, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glomerular Kidney Reseach Center | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guild Hall | East Hampton, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Presbyterian Fund Inc | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nyu Langone Health | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $195 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Promise Fund of Florida | West Palm Beach, FL | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
23 of 52 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 38%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $260,810 | $3,200 |
| 2022 | 24 | $237,480 | $1,350 |
| 2023 | 22 | $139,790 | $1,775 |
| 2024 | 18 | $181,300 | $4,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
44% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Darrell & Susan Ross's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 300 Polmer Park, Palm Beach, FL, 33480. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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