New York · Nonprofit
Ferre Institute Inc
Ferre Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,985 to it, the largest being ORGANIZATION OF TERATOLOGY INFORMATION SPECIALISTS ($219,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $500k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $-205766
What Ferre Institute Inc does
Mission
Ferre Institute, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting haelth and wellness using an inclusive and community-based approach. It was founded in 1974 to offer training in medical genetics. The programs of Ferre Institute, Inc. provide evidence-based information and education regarding inherited risk (genetics), environmental exposures, family history and aim to integrate advances in these areas into personal health management. Information is provided to the public through community lectures, educational resources, and several educational websites. Many of the websites invite the public to email questions to program staff for addditional information, referral and guidance. The Genetic Counseling Program provides individual risk assessment, education and decision making regarding genetic testing and genetic test result explanation in cooperation with referring physicians. Trained genetic counselors are availablle for consultation to physicians and other clinicians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Services: In 2020, Ferre Institute, Inc. was asked to manage and coordinate a 4-Year Project to increase awareness and access to genetic services. This project is known as NYMAC (New York - Mid Atlantic - Caribbean) Regional Genetics Network is funded by the Genetic Services Branch in the Health Resources and Services Administration's HRSA Meternal and Child Heath Burea (HRSA-20-046). The NYMAC Region cnosists of ten (10) jurisdictions including eight (8) states, the District of Columbia (D.C.), and two (2) U.S. Territories (Delaware, The District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia, West Virginia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$157,025 spent28% of program spendingGenetics Counseling Program: This program provides a community based approach that aims to make genetic risk assessment and genetic counseling to underserved communitites.
$406,257 spent$419,546 earned by the program72% of program spendingOther Programs: An educational website is available to provide information for professionals and the public about the causes, medical evalutation and treatment options for individuals and couples facing infertility.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $563,282.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $121k to $394k (+226%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 52% · 2019 17% · 2020 15% · 2021 63% · 2022 63% · 2023 62% · 2024 66% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Ferre Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Luba Djurdjinovic MS
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $46k → $41.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ferre Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ferre Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ferre Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 93% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Ferre Institute Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Ferre Institute Inc's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ferre Institute Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ferre Institute Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ferre Institute Inc?
- Ferre Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,985 to it, the largest being ORGANIZATION OF TERATOLOGY INFORMATION SPECIALISTS ($219,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ferre Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $246,985 in grants to Ferre Institute Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ferre Institute Inc?
- ORGANIZATION OF TERATOLOGY INFORMATION SPECIALISTS is the largest funder on record, with $219,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ferre Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing