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Paul Ferrante Foundation at a glance

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Paul Ferrante Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.7MInternational$860kHuman Services$500kFood & Nutrition$250kArts & Culture$125kYouth Development$25kEducation$20k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA FAMILY HOUSING$1,250,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$500,000
CHILDERN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$500,000
THE NEW YORK ROTARY FOUNDATION$500,000
NO KID HUNGRY$250,000
GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER$250,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS$150,000
JOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC H$50,000
SMILE TRAIN$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATI$25,000
EVERY MONDAY MATTERS$10,000
WORDS ALIVE$10,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$10,000
THE BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA MONIC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$4.3M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+29%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman 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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
  • NY
    NEW YORK ROTARY FOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEW YORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +305%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • AG
    ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
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
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
2
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
7
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Altarum Institute

Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…

Science & Tech
9
John Muir Health

The mission of john muir is to improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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11
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Union Station Homeless Services. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,650,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONNEW YORK ROTARY FOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEW YORK: $700,000 · OtherNEW YORK ROTARY FOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEW YORKGOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER: $500,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD SHELTERSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $250,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHSMILE TRAIN INC: $250,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC+4 more: $80,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL…ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELESMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureWords Alive: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC HEALTH: $70,000 · PhilanthropyEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,430,000Health$1,800,000International$150,000Arts & Culture$135,000Philanthropy$70,000Youth Development$15,000Human Services$10,000

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 budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,650,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC HEALTH: $70,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWords Alive: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Paul Ferrante Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Ferrante Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 19 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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