· Private foundation
The Ferraiuolo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $175,717 |
| YMCA | $38,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| VANESSA BEHAN CRISIS NURSERY | $5,750 |
| YWCA SPOKANE | $5,000 |
| FEED SPOKANE | $2,750 |
| WISHING STAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRANKLIN APPLE PROGRAM | $700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $947k · revenue +42%- VBVANESSA BEHAN5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- YYWCAone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
The vision of Spokane Humane Society is to enrich the lives of animals and their companions through Support, Education, Advocacy and Love (SEAL). As the oldest local non-profit in Spokane, we have been serving companion animals in need and…
The mission of Spokane County United Way is to mobilize our community resources to create measurable results that improve the lives of the people living in our community and advance the idea of the common good. (Continued on Schedule O)Our…
The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.
The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners and the most unlike its peers is Spokane District Dental Society Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Feed Spokane ↗
- Who funds WISHING STAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JONAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane District Dental Society Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds STOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Multicare Health System · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Spokane Teachers Credit Union · Women Helping Women Fund · Numerica Credit Union · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ferraiuolo Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.