Minnesota · Private foundation
Ferber Family 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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $970k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Ferber Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 9 | $275k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $77k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $225k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $235k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $262k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $237k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $295k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $294k | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $719,125 | 9 | 2% |
| Treehouse Inc | $417,360 | 7 | 5% |
| Neighborhood House | $105,170 | 9 | 0% |
| Holy Cross Ministries of Utah | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Liberty Classical Academy | $45,010 | 3 | 0% |
| Hill-Murray School | $42,228 | 3 | n/a |
| Benilde St Margarets High School | $29,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethel University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Iccpa Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lovin Life Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $719,125 | 9 | 2% |
| Treehouse Inc | $417,360 | 7 | 5% |
| Neighborhood House | $105,170 | 9 | 0% |
| Holy Cross Ministries of Utah | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Liberty Classical Academy | $45,010 | 3 | 0% |
| Hill-Murray School | $42,228 | 3 | n/a |
| Benilde St Margarets High School | $29,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethel University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Iccpa Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lovin Life Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joe Grohman Golf Foundation | $800 | 2 | n/a |
| Baby2baby | $528 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Bible Study | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chapel Hill Academy | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($705k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ferber Family 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: United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ferber Family Foundation
- How much does Ferber Family Foundation give?
- Ferber Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $275,338 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ferber Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Community Improvement (34%), Health (22%).
- Who are Ferber Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation ($719k), Treehouse Inc ($417k), Neighborhood House ($105k).
- Does Ferber Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ferber Family 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 Ferber Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Ferber Family Foundation based?
- Ferber Family Foundation is based in MN.
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