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Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UNLOCAL INC$150,000
COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF$150,000
LE MOYNE COLLEGE$150,000
ROCKING THE BOAT$150,000
NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$150,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$150,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC$150,000
CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$150,000
PARENT CHILD CENTER INC$150,000
THE DOOR - A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES IN$150,000
CITY HARVEST$150,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY$150,000
THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC$150,000
THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC$150,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

+28%
+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
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.

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +384%
  • NA
    National Academy Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • CF
    Centre for Social Innovation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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)

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

325 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
324/325
Grantees still filing
228/325
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+96 more: $23,801,982 · Other+96 moreNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $525,000 · Arts & Culture+53 more: $12,105,000 · Arts & Culture+53 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 · EducationMARYMOUNT 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 · EducationCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $300,000 · EducationTHE PARENT CHILD CENTER INC: $300,000 · Education+11 more: $2,230,000 · Education+11 moreTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $450,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD…QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $350,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS CO…LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HIL…EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED …UNLOCAL INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesUNLOCAL I…Bridges from School to Work Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesBridges f…GRAHAM WINDHAM: $300,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WI…JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY …SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY…COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC: $295,206 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL O…Change Machine: $250,000 · Human ServicesChange Ma…SAFE HORIZON INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORI…WOMEN IN NEED INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $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 & SportsTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $930,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCITY HARVEST INC: $550,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Advocates Inc: $375,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$23,801,982Arts & Culture$12,630,000Education$8,272,500Human Services$4,545,206Recreation & Sports$1,195,000Philanthropy$1,180,000Food & Nutrition$1,075,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $450,000 over 4y, 2.5% 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 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 budgetBARD COLLEGE: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $400,000 over 3y, 7.1% 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 budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $350,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $345,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $335,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $335,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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 budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNLOCAL INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $300,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Hyde and Watson F…The Howard Gilman Fou…Altman FoundationPinkerton FoundationThe New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationMertz Gilmore Foundat…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 433 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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