How much does J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation give?

J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,737,001 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Environment (13%), Public Benefit (13%).

Who are J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mana de Metro Detroit ($975k), Zero Day Inc ($625k), Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund ($600k).

Does J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does J Ferrantino Charitable 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.

Where is J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation based?

J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation

J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as J Ferrantino Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Harry a and Margaret D Towsley 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.

$1.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.7MEnvironment$975kPublic Benefit$975kYouth Development$780kPhilanthropy$650kHousing & Shelter$610kHuman Services$480kInternational$400kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k11 grants · $275k
$50k–250k13 grants · $962k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT	$500,000
ZERO DAY	$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	$100,001
FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIER FUND	$100,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER	$75,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$75,000
MAKE-A-WISH	$75,000
LACASA	$75,000
GIRLS GROUP	$75,000
AVALON	$60,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$52,000
TRINITY HEALTH-MICHIGAN	$50,000
ARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION	$50,000
LESLIE SCIENCE AND NATURE CENTER	$50,000
MICHIGAN AUDUBON SOCIETY	$45,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.1M · 35 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.1M

$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+102%

Still filing today

74%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

ZERO DAY INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +234% · 30% of their budget
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FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND
5× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +56%
GIRLS GROUP
6× · 2019–2024 · $355k · revenue +55%

Funded once

BIRTH DETROIT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +102%
PM
PROJECT MOTHERPATH FOR KINDRED SPACE LA
one grant, 2023 · $50k
BB
BEST BUDDIES MICHIGAN EXPANSION
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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Home Builders Association of Michigan

A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.

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Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health

Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/32

Grantees still filing

19/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,806,001Health$1,034,000Environment$1,020,000Public Benefit$975,000Youth Development$730,000Philanthropy$650,000Animals$325,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI37.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · DTE Energy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Duffy Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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