How much did The Ferrao Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of The Ferrao Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

childrenbi-annual annagreementappeal annann parishnaturalcatholic faith

2020

fosterbi-annual ann

2021

pledgesemi-annual annboys girlspregnancy clinicschurch januaryjanuary june

2022

semi-annual annchurch januaryjanuary june

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $9k
$10k–50k4 grants · $65k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2k

Total assets

Largest grants

Diocese of Venice$25,000
Vermont Land Trust$15,000
Protected Harbor$15,000
Community Pregnancy Clinics$10,000
Navy Seal Foundation$5,000
St Ann Catholic Church$3,000
AOPA Foundation$1,000
Shriners Children's$250

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Ferrao Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Ferrao Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 9.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$640k · 13 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$640k

$357k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+29%

Still filing today

46%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SA
Saint Ann School Foundation
3× · 2017–2022 · $166k · revenue +39%
Community Pregnancy clinics
4× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +82%
Vermont Land Trust
6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +78%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
one grant, 2017 · $139k
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +87%
CH
Camp Harbor view
one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

St Vincent's Health System

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Health

Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health

Florida Southern College

Private united methodist affiliated college that is committed to educational excellence.

Education

Nova Southeastern University Inc

Nova Southeastern University's primary activity is to provide educational services. See Part III.

Education

St Vincent's Medical Center Inc

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

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University of Florida

To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.

Education

The Historical Society of Palm Beach

The society's primary focus is to stimulate public appreciation for the rich history and cultural heritage of palm beach county, to operate the richard and pat johnson palm beach county history museum, to perform research, and to discover,…

Arts & Culture

Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Founded in 1961, saint andrew's school is a nationally recognized pre-k through grade 12, day and boarding, college preparatory school in boca raton, florida. the school offers a rigorous, private school curriculum that fosters creative…

Education

Southeast Volusia Healthcare Corporation

The provision of medical care to the community served through the operation of a 109 bed hospital.

Recreation & Sports

Sacred Heart Health System Inc

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Health

Cape Canaveral Hospital Inc

Our team improving the wellness and health of you and your family through excellent and compassionate health care.

Health

Tampa General Hospital

To support and promote the program services of florida health sciences center, inc. dba tampa general hospital.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community School of Naples Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Scranton. 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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/23

the rest of the field

14%

14,580/103,021

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.

06the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$795,552Environment$90,000Health$46,000Youth Development$40,000Education$24,500Human Services$22,500Community Improvement$10,000

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.

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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation The Ferrao 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Hartland Volunteer Fire Department.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +94% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 036010663 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Hartland Volunteer Fire Department, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Ferrao Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ferrao Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Ferrao Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ferrao Foundation?

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The Ferrao Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ferrao Foundation?

More from the funding graph