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Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara 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.

$181k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$65,719
Organizations funded a year
1 to 45
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$900k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$181k23%
FY20232$18k50%
FY20221$5k0%
FY20214$37k25%
FY20203$16k0%
FY201818$66k44%
FY201745$270kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$133kHealth$131kInternational$44kReligion$33kCommunity Improvement$22kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$16kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
NJ
NE
MO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc$75,00043%
Medisys Health Network Inc$70,50041%
Xaverian High School Inc$23,0752n/a
Sub-Contractors Trade Association Inc$21,6001n/a
The If Foundation Inc$18,00023%
Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens Inc$17,20021%
Columbus Citizens Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Lungevity Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Futures in Education$10,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10,00010%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc$75,00043%
Medisys Health Network Inc$70,50041%
Xaverian High School Inc$23,0752n/a
Sub-Contractors Trade Association Inc$21,6001n/a
The If Foundation Inc$18,00023%
Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens Inc$17,20021%
Columbus Citizens Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Lungevity Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Futures in Education$10,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10,00010%
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc$6,00020%
Sr Marie de Mandat Grancey Foundation$5,0001n/a
Acld Foundation Inc$5,00020%
The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Flushing Hospital Medical Center$5,00010%
The Ministry for Hope Inc$5,00010%
The Academy Charter School$3,00010%
All Saints Mercy House Inc$2,5001n/a
Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk$2,5001n/a
March of Dimes Inc$2,5001n/a
St Ambrose Catholic Church$2,0001n/a
St Joseph's Health Fund$1,50011%
Let's Get Ready Inc$1,50010%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Brooklyn$1,0001n/a
Hispanic Brotherhood Inc$1,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
Maria Regina Residence Inc$1,00010%
Interfaith Food Pantry Inc$1,00010%
Cues Fund$1,0001n/a
Shoes for All Inc$1,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$1,00010%
Liveonny Foundation$50010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$15020%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$10010%
Sons of Italy Foundation$5010%

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMedisys Health Network Inc: $70,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe If Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Metro Queens Inc: $17,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLungevity Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFutures in Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAcld Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFlushing Hospital Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ministry for Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Academy Charter School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Health Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLet's Get Ready Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHispanic Brotherhood Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaria Regina Residence Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiveonny Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSons of Italy Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 24.

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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.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation

How much does Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation give?
Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $180,719 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (22%), International (7%).
Who are Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc ($75k), Medisys Health Network Inc ($71k), Xaverian High School Inc ($23k).
Does Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara 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 Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation based?
Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 58 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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