Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF FERRIS
FRIENDS OF FERRIS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($26). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26
- Net assets
- $82k
What Friends of Ferris does
Mission
Enhance and enrich student life through extra-curricular activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The purpose of Friends of Ferris is to support activities that enhance and enrich student life at ferris high school and encourage participation in extra curricular activities. These activities include, but are not limited to: theater, music, technology, academics, athletic, dance, art, social activities and volunteerism. Some specific projects include: donated funds to the saxon pantry which provides needy students with food to take home after school donated funds to the student office for the free and reduced meal program that subsidizes lunches for students who cant afford them purchased t-shirts for the american sign language club for student members who could not afford them purchased caps and gowns for the counseling office, so that they can loan them out each year to students who cant afford to pay for them purchased an inflatable movie screen for the washington drug free youth club so that they can show movies on the lawn in the spring for students, free of charge funded a dinner for cyber patriot club members during their trip to the state competition funded the purchase of warm-ups for the girls softball team funded t-shirts for participants in the saxon classic baseball…
$76,441 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spendingThe saxon pantry was started by ferris staff in the fall of 2016 to respond to a need in the school community and currently serves more than 30 students a day however sometimes it may be double that. In addition to providing food for the students to take home after school, students can also get personal hygiene products. The saxon pantry is partnered with 2nd harvest food bank to receive food weekly, or as needed, but the pantry also has a need for cash donations to help with items that the food bank does not provide and to deal with timing issues. The ham on regal parent group and now Friends of Ferris have been a great support for the pantry but the need is an on-going one. Donations can go straight to the pantry by making that selection during the transaction process on the website.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,441.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $64k to $87k (+35%).
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.
16% of FRIENDS OF FERRIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF FERRIS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF FERRIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
FRIENDS OF FERRIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF FERRIS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF FERRIS: 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 FRIENDS OF FERRIS?
- FRIENDS OF FERRIS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($26). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FERRIS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26 in grants to FRIENDS OF FERRIS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FERRIS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FERRIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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