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Ferri Family Foundation at a glance

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Ferri Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$6.1MEducation$2.3MHealth$470kRecreation & Sports$250kHousing & Shelter$250kHuman Services$205kArts & Culture$167kCommunity Improvement$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
$2,227,529
Median grant
1
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ferri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable Trust$2,227,529
Ocean Reef Community Foundation$17,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Brigham & Womans Hospital: $50k → 16%Semper Fi Fund: $50k → 11%Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Columbia Business School: $750k → 17%Ferri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable Trust: $2.2M → 13%Navy Seal Museum: $100k → 13%Baptist Health South Florida: $25k → 15%Killington Mountain School: $100k → 12%Holderness School: $100k → 10%Friends of Colby Athletics: $50k → 12%Brigham & Womans Hospital: $50k → 16%Colby College: $100k → 10%Semper Fi Fund: $50k → 11%Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Columbia Business School: $350k → 17%Ferri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable Trust: $1.9M → 13%Baptist Health South Florida: $25k → 15%Holderness School: $100k → 10%Friends of Colby Athletics: $50k → 12%Brigham & Womans Hospital: $50k → 16%Colby College: $100k → 10%Semper Fi Fund: $50k → 11%Columbia Business School: $250k → 17%Ferri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable Trust: $1.5M → 13%Baptist Health South Florida: $25k → 15%Holderness School: $100k → 10%Brigham & Womans Hospital: $50k → 16%Yellowstone Club Foundation: $50k → 10%Semper Fi Fund: $50k → 11%Columbia Business School: $250k → 17%Ocean Reef Community Foundation: $70k → 13%Baptist Health South Florida: $25k → 15%Holderness School: $25k → 10%Babson College: $50k → 7%Colby College: $50k → 10%Intrepid Fallen Heros Fund: $50k → 17%Ocean Reef Community Foundation: $35k → 13%Friends of Dartmouth Skiing: $25k → 10%Babson College: $50k → 7%Intrepid Fallen Heros Fund: $50k → 17%Friends of Dartmouth Skiing: $25k → 10%Babson College: $50k → 7%Home Base: $150k → 16%Intrepid Fallen Heros Fund: $25k → 17%Dexter Southfield Fund: $100k → 7%Home Base: $100k → 16%Dexter Southfield Fund: $100k → 7%Dexter Southfield Fund: $100k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
CA
NM
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 17 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$8.0M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+25%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    HOLDERNESS SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $325k · revenue +38%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +56%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • KM
    KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +70%
  • TC
    THE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -99%
  • BS
    Boston Sight
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund; the most unlike its peers is Killington Mountain School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ferri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable Trust: $5,591,356 · OtherFerri Family Foundations Fidelity Charitable TrustDexter Southfield Fund: $310,000 · OtherHome Base: $250,000 · Other+10 more: $717,000 · Other+10 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,600,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…HOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $325,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOLThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $250,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees …BABSON COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE+3 more: $120,000 · EducationOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $179,673 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $125,000 · PhilanthropySEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $200,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOLDIERS FUND INC: $5,000 · InternationalTOUCH HEALTH INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$6,868,356Education$2,445,000Philanthropy$304,673Health$300,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$5,000Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $179,673 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $141,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE SOLDIERS FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTOUCH HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds THE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ferri Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferri Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
  • Killington Mountain School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home