How much does Ferree Foundation give?

Ferree Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,118,638 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ferree Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (31%), Health (9%).

Who are Ferree Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Franklin & Marshall College ($1.0M), Lancasterhistoryorg ($750k), World of Scouting Museum Inc ($735k).

Does Ferree Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ferree Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ferree Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation, The Steinman Foundation.

Where is Ferree Foundation based?

Ferree Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

Ferree Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2024: 16
Organizations funded FY2023: 38%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 35; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $22M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Ferree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	27	$1.1M	56%
FY2023	16	$905k	38%
FY2022	27	$861k	56%
FY2021	28	$878k	29%
FY2020	23	$822k	17%
FY2019	34	$903k	26%
FY2018	35	$898k	31%
FY2017	32	$857k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$2.3MHealth$632kCommunity Improvement$210kEnvironment$180kScience & Tech$179kHousing & Shelter$147kYouth Development$116kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Franklin & Marshall College	$1,012,000	5	0%
Lancasterhistoryorg	$750,000	5	8%
World of Scouting Museum Inc	$735,000	6	100%
Lancaster Country Day School	$354,000	7	0%
Elizabethtown College	$270,000	5	0%
Lancaster Science Center	$178,880	8	3%
Community First Fund	$150,000	3	0%
North Museum Corporation	$145,000	8	3%
Samaritan Center	$110,000	6	2%
Fulton Theatre Company	$100,000	1	1%

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All grantees of Ferree Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Franklin & Marshall College	$1,012,000	5	0%
Lancasterhistoryorg	$750,000	5	8%
World of Scouting Museum Inc	$735,000	6	100%
Lancaster Country Day School	$354,000	7	0%
Elizabethtown College	$270,000	5	0%
Lancaster Science Center	$178,880	8	3%
Community First Fund	$150,000	3	0%
North Museum Corporation	$145,000	8	3%
Samaritan Center	$110,000	6	2%
Fulton Theatre Company	$100,000	1	1%
Lancaster County Food Hub	$80,000	3	1%
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra	$71,000	3	5%
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$70,000	2	1%
United Way of Lancaster County	$57,500	5	0%
Lancaster Public Library	$50,000	2	1%
Keystone Human Services	$50,000	2	0%
Lancaster Farmland Trust	$50,000	2	0%
Spanish American Civic Association for Equality Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Union Community Care	$50,000	1	0%
Music for Everyone	$50,000	6	8%
Arch Street Center Inc	$45,000	5	4%
Lancaster County Conservancy	$40,000	4	0%
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic	$40,000	1	1%
Advantage Lancaster	$39,000	3	4%
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design	$35,000	2	0%
Central Market Trust	$30,000	1	4%
Midpenn Legal Services	$30,000	3	0%
Hope Inspire Love Inc	$25,000	1	6%
Swan Scaling Walls a Note at a Time	$25,000	1	9%
Lancaster Community Safety Coalition	$25,000	5	1%
Power Packs Project	$25,000	1	2%
Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass	$25,000	1	4%
Lancaster General Health Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Tba School	$25,000	1	n/a
Little Conestoga Creek Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Conservation Foundation of Lancaster County	$20,000	2	2%
Penn Square Opera	$20,000	2	n/a
Oxford Area Historical Association	$20,000	1	14%
Friendship Community	$20,000	1	0%
Saca Development Corporation	$20,000	2	1%
Good Samaritan Services	$16,920	1	1%
Water for People	$16,000	4	0%
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association	$15,405	2	0%
Parish Resource Center Inc	$15,000	2	2%
Aim to Empower	$15,000	1	25%
Aaron's Acres	$15,000	1	1%
Visioncorps	$15,000	1	0%
The Pennsylvania Dutch Council Inc	$12,000	3	0%
Boy Scouts of America Chester County Council	$10,500	3	0%
Latin American Alliance	$10,000	2	5%
Lancaster Health Center	$10,000	1	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$10,000	1	0%
Crossnet Ministries	$10,000	1	0%
Landis Communities	$10,000	1	0%
Keystone Service Systems Inc	$7,500	1	0%
African American Cultural Alliance Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Handz on Hope	$5,000	1	n/a
Lancaster County Christian School	$5,000	1	0%
Mt Hope Nazarene Retirement Community	$5,000	1	0%
The Common Wheel	$5,000	1	1%
Meals on Wheels Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa	$4,000	1	0%
Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development	$3,250	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Lancaster General Health	$2,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Ferree Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA109.2× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Ppl 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.

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About Ferree Foundation

How much does Ferree Foundation give?: Ferree Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,118,638 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ferree Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (31%), Health (9%).
Who are Ferree Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Franklin & Marshall College ($1.0M), Lancasterhistoryorg ($750k), World of Scouting Museum Inc ($735k).
Does Ferree Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ferree Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ferree Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation, The Steinman Foundation.
Where is Ferree Foundation based?: Ferree Foundation is based in PA.