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Wallace Ferree Memorial 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$600
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$66k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$5k0%
FY20236$5k17%
FY20227$4k0%
FY20218$7k0%
FY20208$6k0%
FY20199$5k22%
FY20189$6k0%
FY201710$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$12kHuman Services$10kHealth$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kAnimals$4kReligion$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

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About Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation

How much does Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation give?
Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $4,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (24%), Health (18%).
Who are Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh ($12k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($4k), Volunteer Fire Company of Mt Lebanon Inc ($3k).
Does Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wallace Ferree Memorial 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 Wallace Ferree Memorial Foundation based?
Wallace Ferree Memorial 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 13 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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