· Private foundation
Ferraro Family Foundation Incorporated
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC | $100,000 |
| TAMARACK COUNTRY CLUB INC | $68,110 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JAMES & HELEN CABRERA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $5,150 |
| VINEYARD GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Best Buddies International Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +81%- TBTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +129%
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +61%
- NPNEW PROFIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +100%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of MIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION (D/B/A NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, INC. )is to create awareness and generate funds for Nicklaus Children's Health System (System), Nicklaus Children's Hospital and any…
To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…
The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…
To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.
The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Support of miami university
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mourning Family Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Patricks Concerts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK COUNTRY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NoticeAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEATHER ON EARTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds James and Helen Cabrera Memorial Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds MARGAUX'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICKS CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ferraro Family Foundation Incorporated funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc — 22% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.