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Andrew U Ferrari Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Andrew U Ferrari Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$12k25%
FY202324$70k13%
FY202219$43k5%
FY202123$67k0%
FY202024$49k21%
FY201927$70k26%
FY201825$89k36%
FY201728$99kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$241kArts & Culture$84kEnvironment$64kReligion$34kAnimals$33kHuman Services$22kHealth$20kEmployment$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Andrew U Ferrari Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShenandoah University: $155,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoard of Trustees of Whitman College: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Wildlife Center: $32,950 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $25,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBarns of Rose Hill: $22,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPowhatan School Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of the State Arboretum of Virginia: $7,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetShenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah National Park Trust: $5,120 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlue Ridge Hospice Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNw Works Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClarke County Historical Association: $4,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Downstream Project: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLong Branch Historic House & Farm: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Near East Refugee Aid: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Institute of the Arts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoyce Volunteer Fire Company Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers - Winchester Area Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Youth Development Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of Clarke County FoundationVA34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Tj Guarriello Jr Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The Clara Weiss Fund · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · Stern Foundation · The Brandt Foundation · Buckley Family Endowment Inc · Feltner Community Foundation · Ridgeway Em-Charittuw

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Andrew U Ferrari Foundation

How much does Andrew U Ferrari Foundation give?
Andrew U Ferrari Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $12,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Andrew U Ferrari Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (12%).
Who are Andrew U Ferrari Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shenandoah University ($156k), Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($36k), Blue Ridge Wildlife Center ($33k).
Does Andrew U Ferrari Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Andrew U Ferrari Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Andrew U Ferrari Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of Clarke County Foundation, American Woodmark Foundation Inc, Tj Guarriello Jr Family Foundation.
Where is Andrew U Ferrari Foundation based?
Andrew U Ferrari Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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