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The Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family Foundation at a glance

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The Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family 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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$284kHealth$276kYouth Development$253kArts & Culture$170kRecreation & Sports$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kEnvironment$15kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$47,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DKMS$64,184
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$47,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO$14,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $1k → 16%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%ECHOING GREEN: $45k → 17%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $10k → 14%PLANTAGENETS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 11%ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION: $5k → 15%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $75k → 13%PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $3k → 19%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $48k → 14%ECHOING GREEN: $30k → 17%THE PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA (PERFECT PINK PARTY): $25k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $50k → 13%HOWARD A & JUDITH K TULLMAN FDN FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $3k → 19%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $100k → 14%DKMS: $64k → 17%PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $4k → 13%CHICAGO PRESERVATION CO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $3k → 19%PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 13%CHICAGO PRESERVATION CO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2k → 19%THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $5k → 17%PARADISE FUND: $5k → 11%CHICAGO PRESERVATION CO: $5k → 14%PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $110k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $14k → 14%LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ADA 25 ADVANCING LEADERSHIP: $5k → 14%ADA 25 ADVANCING LEADERSHIP: $3k → 14%TEACHING TOLERANCE (IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CTR): $50k → 14%TEACHING TOLERANCE (IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CTR): $50k → 14%TEACHING TOLERANCE (IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CTR): $30k → 14%CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN: $5k → 14%CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN: $5k → 14%LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN: $5k → 14%LEO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$737k · 12 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
19

Total granted

$737k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $129k · revenue +8%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $124k · revenue +2%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $123k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CM
    Claremont McKenna Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • LH
    LEO HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
11
Harold E Eisenberg Foundation

The foundation's objective is to fund breakthrough gastrointestinal (gi) cancer research, including clinical trials and studies, at the robert h. lurie comprehensive cancer center of northwestern university.additionally, another objective…

Philanthropy
12
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Howard a and Judith K Tullman Foundation for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEACHING TOLERANCE (IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CTR): $129,700 · OtherTEACHING TOLERANCE (IL HOLOCAUST MUSEU…Claremont McKenna College: $100,000 · OtherClaremont McKenna CollegeLEO HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherLEO HIGH SCHOOLTHE PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA (PERFECT PINK PARTY): $25,000 · OtherTHE PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA (PERFECT P…Plantagenets Foundation Inc: $20,000 · OtherPlantagenets Foundation IncIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $28,700 · Other+7 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $129,352 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $124,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHI…ECHOING GREEN INC: $75,181 · EducationECHOING GREEN …THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $40,000 · EducationTHE LATIN SCHO…The Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Westminste…DISABILITY LEAD: $7,500 · EducationDISABILITY LEA…TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $122,500 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCE…ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPARADISE FUND INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyDKMS: $64,184 · HealthDKMSHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 · HealthHIPPOCRATIC C…THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $4,600 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthLyric Opera of Chicago: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $13,200 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE: $15,000 · Environment
Other$358,400Youth Development$253,352Education$137,681Philanthropy$135,000Health$122,284Arts & Culture$38,200Environment$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $129,352 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $124,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $122,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $75,181 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDKMS: $64,184 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlantagenets Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $13,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY LEAD: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADISE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD A AND JUDITH K TULLMAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Michael and Jacqueline Ferro Family Foundation 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.

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 32 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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