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The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,550
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,550
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$5k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$4k50%
FY20245$8k60%
FY20233$9k67%
FY202210$9k70%
FY20213$8k0%
FY20207$19kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$41kInternational$6kHealth$5kHuman Services$3kCivil Rights$2kArts & Culture$250Philanthropy$250Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
NJ
AZ
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Adults With Developmental Disabilities Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University Hillel Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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About The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation

How much does The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation give?
The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $4,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (71%), International (10%), Health (8%).
Who are The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Society Hill Synagogue ($10k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($6k), Association for Adults With Developmental Disabilities Inc ($2k).
Does The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation 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.
Where is The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation based?
The Richard and Marlene Ferst Foundation is based in PA.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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