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Fergeson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME | $3,000 |
| OSSM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +27%- CRCHI RHO CORPORATION6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +35%
- OHOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME3× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LCLONGWOOD CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TOTHEATRE OF NOTEone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -24%
FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +211%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
To increase the availability of affordable, safe housing options for low-to-moderate income families, by providing assistance to those who wish to become renters or homeowners through a variety of wealth-building programs.
To promote the self-sufficiency of the socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged citizens of oklahoma and canadian counties and to eliminate the paradox of poverty among these citizens by opening to everyone the opportunity to…
A contemporary fine craft community arts organization dedicated to fine craft; showcase local, state, regional, and national artists; and creating a community of partnerships with artists, curators, arts, and social service organizations.…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chi Rho Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHI RHO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE OF NOTE ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds SON RISE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS REST FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · The Kerr Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fergeson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc — 91% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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