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The Richard and Maude Ferry 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.

$529k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$384kHuman Services$191kArts & Culture$61kCivil Rights$46kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$5kCrime & Legal$5kYouth Development$5kOther$1.0M
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$105,500
KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
ST JAMES CATHEDRAL$35,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$30,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE$27,500
FRYE ART MUSEUM$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S LOS ANGELES$25,000
SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH$25,000
ARTZ PHILADELPHIA$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES$25,000
UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO$25,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LONG BEACH$25,000
WOMEN'S ACCESSIBLE MEDICAL SERVICES$20,000
MATT TALBOT CENTER$20,000
MUSIC CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FOR THEIR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%METHOW AT HOME: $25k → 17%HEALING THE CULTURE: $20k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $1k → 9%SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH: $25k → 14%OPTIONS UNITED: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%ELDERWISE: $25k → 9%ELDERWISE: $10k → 9%EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%FULL LIFE CARE: $30k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
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MO
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DC
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Richard and Maude Ferry Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Richard and Maude Ferry Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 26 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
58

Total granted

$1.8M
$681k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
  • WA
    Women's Accessible Medical Services PS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +12%
  • SF
    Students for Life of America Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $46k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -62%
  • CM
    CHICAGO METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • FL
    FULL LIFE CARE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -4%

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

04Your field

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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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Alzheimer's Family Services Center

To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.

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3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
7
Collabria Care

The exempt organization's staff and volunteers are committed to providing exceptional professional health care, expert resources, and compassionate support to individuals and their loved ones experiencing the transitions of aging, serious…

Human Services
8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
11
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
12
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Mount St Vincent Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eritrean Catholic Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Jewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr15%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr13%59%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
12%
4,744/38,907

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,000,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $222,420 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $90,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEST JAMES CATHEDRAL — $123,000 · OtherST JAMES CATHEDRALVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATIONCALLED TO SERVE AS CHRIST — $100,000 · OtherCALLED TO SERVE AS CHRISTCHICAGO METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM — $36,782 · Other+71 more — $596,250 · Other+71 moreTIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC — $100,000 · HealthTIMESLIPS CREA…Women's Accessible Medical Services PS — $96,000 · HealthWomen's Access…Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California — $37,200 · HealthOrder of Malta…ARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 · HealthARTZ PHILADELP…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthHOSPICE SAVANN…ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GRE…I'M STILL HERE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthI'M STILL HERE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $21,150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…+1 more — $5,000 · HealthElderwise — $35,250 · Human ServicesFULL LIFE CARE — $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMethow At Home — $25,000 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHEALING THE CULTURE — $20,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS UNITED — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesCONCERTS IN MOTION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE THEATRE — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePATH WITH ART — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,200 · Arts & CultureStudents for Life of America Inc — $46,000 · Civil RightsKORN FERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,312,920Other$1,056,032Health$384,350Human Services$191,250Arts & Culture$61,200Civil Rights$46,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,000,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $222,420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS — $96,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $46,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California — $37,200 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM — $36,782 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetElderwise — $35,250 over 3y, 26% of budgetFULL LIFE CARE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMethow At Home — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetI'M STILL HERE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAssistance League of Long Beach — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $21,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING THE CULTURE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPTIONS UNITED — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKORN FERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMING AGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFARESTART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH WITH ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEUROLOGICAL VOCATIONAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEMENTIA ACTION ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCRUDEM FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN DOUGLAS FRENCH ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUMS — $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationCatholic Community Fo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Klm FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Wyman Youth TrustThe Bungie FoundationLucky Seven FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Knights of Columbus S…Kawabe Memorial Fund
The Norcliffe FoundationWA28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Klm Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Bungie Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Knights of Columbus Seattle Council No 676 · Kawabe Memorial Fund

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 Richard and Maude Ferry 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Richard and Maude Ferry Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Richard and Maude Ferry 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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