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Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$23MEducation$15MHuman Services$6.0MCommunity Improvement$3.3MYouth Development$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.5MRecreation & Sports$2.5MHousing & Shelter$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k92 grants · $10M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$203M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%The Children's Village: $100k → 9%CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $150k → 11%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $150k → 8%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $150k → 8%BRONXWORKS INC: $50k → 28%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $100k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $100k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $100k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $50k → 13%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $150k → 13%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $150k → 13%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $50k → 13%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $150k → 17%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $175k → 20%ExpandEd Schools: $150k → 17%RISING GROUND: $105k → 28%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $125k → 20%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $100k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $100k → 17%THE FINANCIAL CLINIC: $125k → 20%THE FINANCIAL CLINIC: $125k → 20%COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC: $153k → 20%NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY: $50k → 17%COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC: $142k → 20%CHILDRENS AID: $300k → 17%WARM INC: $150k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $125k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $125k → 17%CHILDRENS AID: $100k → 17%START SMALL THINK BIG: $50k → 17%CHILDREN S AID: $50k → 17%John Jay College Foundation Inc: $150k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 17%The Chinese-American Planning Council: $100k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $150k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $75k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $75k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $50k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $150k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $150k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%DAY ONE: $90k → 17%Hudson Guild: $88k → 17%Comprehensive Development Inc: $105k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50M · 195 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

195
197

Total granted

$50M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • CP
    CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +112%
  • TP
    THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $550k · revenue +28%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SF
    School for the Physical City an
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • CF
    Centre for Social Innovation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • NA
    National Academy Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

3
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
4
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
New York Studio School

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)

7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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…

Religion
9
Community-Word Project Inc

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.

Education
10
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The New Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
School in the Square Public Charter School

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…

Education

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLow-Income Housing & Suppor…Arts & Culture OrganizationsLabor Union FundsJewish Education and Commun…Diverse Nonprofit Organizat…Private Grantmaking Foundat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr22%25%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr9%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr22%24%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr9%22%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/328
the rest of the field
11%
4,574/39,907

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
324/325
Grantees still filing
227/325
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+97 more — $23,951,982 · Other+97 moreNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $525,000 · Arts & Culture+51 more — $11,805,000 · Arts & Culture+51 moreTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC — $550,000 · EducationTHE PARTNERSHIP F…THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $520,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPO…BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $450,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLE…NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $450,000 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR P…New York University — $437,500 · EducationNew York Universi…MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE — $425,000 · EducationTEACHING MATTERS INC — $425,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $400,000 · EducationComplete College America Inc — $400,000 · EducationLe Moyne College — $375,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $350,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $345,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTER — $315,000 · EducationTHE PARENT CHILD CENTER INC — $300,000 · EducationCenter for Educational Innovation Inc — $300,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $275,000 · Education+9 more — $1,805,000 · Education+9 moreTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $450,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD…EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED …LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HIL…QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $350,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS CO…GRAHAM WINDHAM — $300,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WI…Bridges from School to Work Inc — $300,000 · Human ServicesBridges f…JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY …UNLOCAL INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesUNLOCAL I…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY…COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC — $295,206 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL O…SAFE HORIZON INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORI…Change Machine — $250,000 · Human ServicesChange Ma…WOMEN IN NEED INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $200,000 · Human Services+1 more — $150,000 · Human ServicesCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $650,000 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INC — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $245,000 · Recreation & SportsVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $930,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCITY HARVEST INC — $550,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Advocates Inc — $375,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$23,951,982Arts & Culture$12,330,000Education$8,122,500Human Services$4,545,206Recreation & Sports$1,345,000Philanthropy$1,330,000Food & Nutrition$1,075,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $930,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $650,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC — $550,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $550,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $525,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $520,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC — $465,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $450,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership — $450,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNew York University — $437,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE — $425,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC — $425,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC — $420,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetINTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $400,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC — $400,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetComplete College America Inc — $400,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCommunity Food Advocates Inc — $375,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetLe Moyne College — $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $355,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC — $350,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS — $350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $345,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $335,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $335,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $325,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $325,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetQUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INC — $325,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $315,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $300,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC — $300,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUNLOCAL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation — $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ154.8× affinity104 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc33% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc9% of income from government
  • Center for Supportive Schools Inc9% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 433 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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