Connecticut · Private foundation
Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $670k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $670k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $565k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $420k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $401k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $431k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $330k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $372k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $291k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Old Farms School Inc | $918,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Saint Joseph | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| House of Bread Inc | $260,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Atlantic Classical Orchestra Inc | $235,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary Inc | $210,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Frick Collection | $176,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Healing Meals Foundation Corporation | $155,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Journey Home Inc | $147,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Hartford Interval House Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gifts of Love Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($554k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Ahearn Family Foundation · The John G Martin Foundation · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation
- How much does Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation give?
- Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $670,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Arts & Culture (18%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Avon Old Farms School Inc ($918k), University of Saint Joseph ($350k), House of Bread Inc ($260k).
- Does Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation based?
- Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation is based in CT.
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