· Private foundation
Charles P Ferro Foundation
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.
The 24 grants below total $157,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc. | $104,000 |
| Kansas Rural Communities Foundation | $7,500 |
| Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center Inc. | $5,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $5,000 |
| National Eating Disorders Association | $3,000 |
| Crescent Foundation Inc. | $3,000 |
| Shelburne Farms | $2,500 |
| Danny Wallace Foundation Inc. | $2,500 |
| Central Park Track Club | $2,500 |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc. | $2,000 |
| Room at the Inn | $2,000 |
| Southern Coalition for Social Justice | $2,000 |
| The Charles Landers Foundation | $2,000 |
| Vermont Parks Forever Inc | $2,000 |
| Tiny Houses for Veterans | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 10 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $516k · revenue +5%
- DTDOG TAG INC7× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +126%
Nova Southeastern University Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NANSU ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BCBoston Children's Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CSCOMMUNITY SAILING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zack Latteri Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 101 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
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 HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds KIDS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Push To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds CITY GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds One Bead Project ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Crescent Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY WALLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HO-HO-KUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
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 Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation
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 Charles P Ferro Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wyckoff Family Ymca — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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