New Hampshire · Private foundation
The Ferris Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $626k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $344,279
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Ferris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $620k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $606k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $628k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $658k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $504k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $436k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $184k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $762k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc | $145,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Center for Inspired Teaching | $145,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Noyes Children's Library Foundationinc | $134,050 | 5 | 27% |
| Trinity College | $131,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Community of Hope | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| I Dream Public Charter School | $111,000 | 4 | n/a |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $103,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $85,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint James School | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $37,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ferris Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Nora Roberts Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The Ferris Family Foundation
- How much does The Ferris Family Foundation give?
- The Ferris Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $625,985 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ferris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (54%), Education (30%), Religion (4%).
- Who are The Ferris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc ($145k), Center for Inspired Teaching ($145k), Noyes Children's Library Foundationinc ($134k).
- Does The Ferris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ferris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ferris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is The Ferris Family Foundation based?
- The Ferris Family Foundation is based in NH.
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