· Public charity
The Ferry Family Charitable Foundation
To support the roman catholic church.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE FERRY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| FULCRUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| ASSUMPTION PARISH | $27,500 |
| ST JAMES CATHEDRAL | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL OF COLLEGES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $10,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $445k · revenue +87%
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON4× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +105%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION 618850163× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +70% · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- SMSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USAone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -7%
- HFHOLY FAMILY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- PFPAULIST FATHERSone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION 61885016 ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
- Who funds MARYCREST MANOR ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF COLLEGES OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE FERRY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Support Our Aging Religious 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: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · American Endowment Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Ccf-La Supporting Organization · Klm Foundation · The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Seattle 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 organization The Ferry Family Charitable 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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