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Constance and Carl Ferris Charitable at a glance

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Constance and Carl Ferris Charitable

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$423k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MHealth$738kHousing & Shelter$570kReligion$408kFood & Nutrition$230kScience & Tech$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kHuman Services$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$40,529
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY COUNTY$50,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$50,000
UMD - 3D PRINTING PROGRAM$50,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$50,000
UPPER SHORE AGING INC$40,529
OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$32,000
ST PAUL S PARISH KENT$25,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER KENT COUNTY MD$25,000
WESLEY CHAPEL$25,000
THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $50k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $50k → 12%UPPER SHORE AGING INC: $41k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 12%UPPER SHORE AGING INC: $1k → 12%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

NY
OH
PA
NJ
MD
DE
NC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 23 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$3.2M
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +21%
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +59%
  • CF
    Community Food Pantry
    8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SM
    SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +31%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
7
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chester River Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Food Pantry. 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $250,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYWESLEY CHAPEL: $202,500 · OtherWESLEY CHAPELUMD KIDNEY RESEARCH ENDOWMENT: $200,000 · OtherUMD KIDNEY RESEARCH ENDOWMENTST PAUL'S PARISH - KENT: $180,000 · OtherST PAUL'S PARISH - KENTRebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: $170,000 · OtherRebuilding Together Eastern Shore IncChester River Health Foundation Inc: $160,000 · OtherChester River Health Foundation IncUMD - 3D PRINTING PROGRAM: $150,000 · OtherUMD - 3D PRINTING PROGRAMHABITAT FOR HUMANITY COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY COUNTYROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $75,000 · Other+6 more: $165,000 · Other+6 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $420,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGECornell University: $400,000 · EducationCornell UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education+7 more: $90,000 · Education+7 moreCommunity Food Pantry: $230,000 · Human ServicesUPPER SHORE AGING INC: $41,529 · Human ServicesOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $228,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $15,236 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $100,000 · Health
Other$1,652,500Education$1,185,000Human Services$271,529Philanthropy$243,236Health$100,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $420,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Pantry: $230,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $228,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $75,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUPPER SHORE AGING INC: $41,529 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $15,236 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc ↗
  • Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE ↗

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.

Mid Shore Community F…United Way of Kent Co…David a Bramble Found…Verizon FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Kent County Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Constance and Carl Ferris Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Constance and Carl Ferris Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Maryland School for the Blind: 47% of income from government
  • Upper Shore Aging Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College: 1% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Constance and Carl Ferris Charitable through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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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