· Private foundation
Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k92 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARM INC | $150,000 |
| NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| PARENT CHILD CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NY | $150,000 |
| ANTHOS HOME INC | $150,000 |
| SAMUEL FIELDS Y | $150,000 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $150,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY | $150,000 |
| THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC | $150,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $150,000 |
| CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $150,000 |
| THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION | $150,000 |
| CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $150,000 |
| THE DOOR - A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES IN | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
195 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +112%
- TPTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $550k · revenue +28%
CITY HARVEST INC4× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SFSchool for the Physical City anone grant, 2017 · $200k
- CFCentre for Social Innovationone grant, 2017 · $200k
- NANational Academy Foundationone grant, 2017 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
325 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 325 of the 433 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEACHING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Complete College America Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.