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The Ferrara Foundation Inc

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$55kEducation$40kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$30kCivil Rights$25kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$15kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ferrara Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Citizenship Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendshipworks Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seal Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPlay Ball Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMassachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPelotonia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShoes That Fit: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDj Henry Dream Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Hand Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to The Ferrara Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ferrara Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Ferrara Foundation Inc

How much does The Ferrara Foundation Inc give?
The Ferrara Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Ferrara Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (16%), Health (16%).
Who are The Ferrara Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Project Citizenship Inc ($25k), United Negro College Fund Inc ($25k), Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc ($25k).
Does The Ferrara Foundation Inc 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 The Ferrara Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is The Ferrara Foundation Inc based?
The Ferrara Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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 21 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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