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Daniel C Ferguson Charitable Trust at a glance

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Daniel C Ferguson Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.5MHealth$600kArts & Culture$180kEnvironment$87kCrime & Legal$75kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$31kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rockford Park Foundation$25,000
Artis-Naples$25,000
Geneva Lake Conservancy$20,000
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida$5,000
Twin Oaks Homeless Shelter$5,000
Feeding America$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
ACLU$1,000
Alzheimer's Support Network$750
Lake Geneva Country Club$500
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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
CO
DC
AL
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 14 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$2.5M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+67%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +27%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $136k · revenue +58%
  • GL
    GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • GC
    Guadalupe Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +561%
  • TI
    THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +56%
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 Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
3
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
7
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Immokalee Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,511,115 · EducationYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $10,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $400,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $135,950 · OtherALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INCCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $75,000 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $50,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORI…Rockford Park Foundation: $35,000 · Other+13 more: $102,600 · Other+13 moreARTIS-NAPLES INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureGuadalupe Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $35,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $300 · Food & NutritionALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $3,600 · Health
Education$1,521,115Other$798,550Arts & Culture$180,000Human Services$50,000Environment$36,500Food & Nutrition$30,300Health$23,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,511,115 over 4y, 12% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $135,950 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $35,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFeeding Dreams Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Chicago Community…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Daniel C Ferguson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel C Ferguson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 29 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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