Vermont · Private foundation
Charles P Ferro Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $183k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $158k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $104,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Charles P Ferro Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $150k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $172k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $208k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $222k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $196k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $207k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $101k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $94k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $516,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Dog Tag Inc | $126,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc. | $104,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nova Southeastern University Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Appalachia | $35,000 | 7 | 57% |
| Kids Helping Kids Inc | $32,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Shelburne Farms | $23,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Push To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation | $19,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hopehealth Hospice & Palliative Care | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles P Ferro Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Charles P Ferro Foundation
- How much does Charles P Ferro Foundation give?
- Charles P Ferro Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $157,500, out of $183,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Charles P Ferro Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Human Services (11%), Education (9%).
- Who are Charles P Ferro Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc ($516k), Dog Tag Inc ($126k), Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc. ($104k).
- Does Charles P Ferro Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles P Ferro Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles P Ferro Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, George W Mergens Foundation.
- Where is Charles P Ferro Foundation based?
- Charles P Ferro Foundation is based in VT.
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