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The Ferrantino 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $66,667 |
| CAF AMERICA | $27,000 |
| THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE KIRK GIBSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S | $10,000 |
| DYNAMI FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| CAF AMERICA | $5,760 |
| KEIFER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FESTA ITALIANA | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
| PINK FUND | $1,000 |
| THAAR CARE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PENN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +76% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- DFDYNAMI FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $254k · revenue +87%
- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +202%
- CDCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- SOSHADES OF PINK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
- RJROBERT J TURNER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
- PLPLYMOUTH LIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Cancer awareness established in 2011, the michigan ovarian cancer alliance promotes saving women's lives through early detection of ovarian cancer and improved treatment outcomes.
Gilda's club metro detroit ensures that all people impacted by cancer are empowered with knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
To raise funding to support the families of organ and tissue donor throughout the state of michigan and establish a network of support unique to donor families.
The foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting michigan's donation and transplant community.
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
To provide financial assistance, education and support for cancer patients in delta county, michigan
To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
To provide assistance to veterans living in michigan.
The mission is to provide financial support to help meet basic needs, decrease stress levels, and allow breast cancer patients in active treatment to focus on healing.
Receives, invests, and disburse contributions raised to support Michigan Technological University.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle League of Plymouth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dynami Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 DYNAMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT J TURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY HAS HEART ↗
- Who funds The Kiefer Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FESTA ITALIANA ↗
- Who funds LIFE DIRECTIONS ↗
- Who funds THAAR CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KYLE MILLIKEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHARITIES AT ADIOS ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PENN 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Butzel Long Charitable Trust · Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation Dba Dresner Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer 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 Ferrantino 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.
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