· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH | $50,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME | $50,000 |
| OUR COMPANIONS ANIMAL RESCUE | $50,000 |
| HEALING MEALS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $50,000 |
| THE OPEN HEARTH | $50,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $50,000 |
| ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $40,000 |
| HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $25,000 |
| JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| HOUSE OF BREAD | $25,000 |
| THE BUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $918k · revenue +61%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH6× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +20%
- OCOUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +235%
Funded once
- SSST SEBASTIAN CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $30k
- HMHILL-STEAD MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +50%
- WFWindsor Food and Fuel Bank Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Operation of Animal Shelter
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Dedicated to saving homeless dogs and cats, foha provides rescue, medical care, and adoption services in the washington dc metropolitan region. more than 17,500 cats and dogs have found a safe haven with friends of homeless animals for…
Is a volunteer-based non profit organization that saves dogs and cats from death (high kill shelters) and adopts them to loving families.
To rescue and shelter abandoned and unwanted animals until they can be found permanent safe and caring homes.
Hands on hartford, in partnership with others, strengthens community in hartford by responding faithfully to people in need through programs that change lives and renew human possibility.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LABS4RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN FELINES INC ↗
- Who funds POODLE RESCUE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Windsor Food and Fuel Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AIDS MINISTRY OF GREATER DANBURY INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Journey Home Inc: 59% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association: 59% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc: 3% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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