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The Shaw Ferriel Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shaw Ferriel Family 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$15kEducation$11kArts & Culture$8kAnimals$5kInternational$3kReligion$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC$5,000
FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC$5,000
CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
TUMAINI FUND USA INC$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%METROPOLITAN CHARITIES INC: $3k → 12%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 4 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$28k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+106%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • DF
    DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k
  • FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • SO
    SAVE OUR STRAYS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -54%
  • MC
    Metropolitan Charities Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • GL
    Greater Largo Library Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +106%
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
The Lam Foundation

The LAM Foundation urgently seeks safe and effective treatments and ultimately a cure for LAM.

Philanthropy
2
Wireless History Foundation

The Foundation preserves and promotes the history of the wireless industry. The Foundation chronicles the achievements of individuals, the contributions of numerous organizations, and the evolution of markets and technology. The Foundation…

Arts & Culture
3
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
4
Zoo Miami Foundation Inc

Zoo Miami Foundation's mission is to inspire people to preserve nature and motivate others to join us through community engagement, fundraising, and building relationships.

Animals
5
Epilepsy Services Foundation Inc

The organization is committed to creating a better future and environment for persons affected by epilepsy living in West Central Florida.

Health
6
Miami Homes for All Inc

Miami Homes For All's mission is to ensure that everyone in Miami-Dade has a safe, affordable place to call home.

Human Services
7
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
8
Lifebox Foundation Inc

To improve the safety of healthcare in low and middle-income countries.

Philanthropy
9
Space for Giants Usa Inc

To help protect Africas remaining natural ecosystems and the large wild animals they contain, while bringing major social and economic value to local communities and national governments.

Animals
10
Water Environment Federation

WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…

Environment
11
The Donor Alliance Foundation

The Foundation was created in December 1993 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and re-established in August 2017, to operate exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. The Foundation is a supporting organization to Donor…

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12
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drug Free America Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Save Our Strays Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherDRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INCCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $9,000 · OtherCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOLGreater Largo Library Foundation Inc: $2,000 · OtherGreater Largo Library Foundation IncTRINITY BY THE COVE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COAST P…AIRMAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $536 · Arts & CultureAIRMAN HERITAGE FOUN…SAVE OUR STRAYS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsSAVE OUR STRA…TUMAINI FUND USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalMetropolitan Charities Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesLGS Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Health
Other$22,000Arts & Culture$7,536Animals$5,000International$3,000Human Services$2,500Health$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR STRAYS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMetropolitan Charities Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLGS Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Largo Library Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAIRMAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $536 over 1y, 1.5% 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 Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Shaw Ferriel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shaw Ferriel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Metropolitan Charities Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 10 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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