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.

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.

Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation

Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation

Q: 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%).

Q: Where is Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation based?

Joseph a Ferrara and Joan Ferrara Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$66k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $30k
$10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$50k–250k2 grants · $116k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$900k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$65,719
MEDISYS HEALTH NETWORK	$50,000
TOMORROWS HOPE FOUNDATION	$25,500
XAVIERIAN HIGH SCHOOL	$10,000
MFL FOUNDATION	$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO QUEENS	$5,000
HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES	$5,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR	$3,500
DOMINICAN MISSION SECRETARIATE	$3,000
42ND INFANTRY DIVISION RAINBOW ASSOC	$2,500
ACLD FOUNDATION	$2,500
THE MAURER FOUNDATION	$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$1,000

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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$459k · 17 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$459k

$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%

+13%

Still filing today

41%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

MH
MEDISYS HEALTH NETWORK INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +67%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO QUEENS INC
2× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +242%
BR
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
2× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +78%

Funded once

ST
SUB-CONTRACTORS TRADE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +35%
CC
COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -13%
LF
LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +103%

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.

St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Francis Hospital

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health

St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health

Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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St Francis Research & Educational Corporation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Mercy Medical Center Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

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Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

30 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. 30 of the 58 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)

29/30

Grantees still filing

17/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$415,499Health$104,650International$18,000Youth Development$17,200Education$15,500Arts & Culture$15,000Religion$6,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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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