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Ferguson Electric Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$287kEducation$78kPhilanthropy$54kArts & Culture$47kReligion$35kFood & Nutrition$30kAnimals$17kHuman Services$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$901k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$15,000
BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE$10,000
CATHOLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$5,000
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
BUFFALO CITY MISSION$3,000
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE$3,000
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$2,500
OLV CHARITIES$2,500
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY$2,500
HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK$2,500
KEVIN GUEST HOUSE$2,500
EXPLORE & MORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$2,000
ST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY$2,000
CRISIS SERVICES$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $2k → 13%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $2k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $4k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $4k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3k → 13%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3k → 13%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$599k · 53 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
3

Total granted

$599k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+217%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +180%
  • KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • The Tool Library Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +217%
  • 4
    43NORTH
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +180%
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
3
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
4
Children's Health Home of Wny Inc

To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…

Health
5
University At Buffalo Surgeons Inc

University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…

Education
6
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University At Buffalo Pediatric Associates Inc

To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…

Health
9
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health
10
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

34 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. 34 of the 60 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)
34/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE: $30,000 · OtherBUFFALO STATE COLLEGEFEEDMORE WNY: $30,000 · OtherFEEDMORE WNYTHE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC HEALTH: $25,500 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC HEALTHST JOSEPHS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $15,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NIAGARA COUNTY: $15,000 · OtherBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11,500 · OtherOLV CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $10,500 · Other+27 more: $125,300 · Other+27 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE…UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $28,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO…HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF…THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHILDREN'S …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $42,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSP…KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH FOUN…KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC: $15,000 · HealthKEVIN GUEST HOUSE I…SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $7,000 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION …NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $4,500 · Health+3 more: $3,500 · HealthCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $3,000 · Human ServicesEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $8,500 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCRADLE BEACH INC: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Tool Library Inc: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$287,800Philanthropy$114,500Health$108,000Human Services$33,000Arts & Culture$32,000Recreation & Sports$22,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC HEALTH: $25,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Tool Library Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTRAL ACADEMY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds The Tool Library Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Baird FoundationThe John R Oishei Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…The Western New York …Buffalo Sabres Founda…First Niagara Foundat…The Peter and Elizabe…James H Cummings Foun…The Margaret L Wendt …Buffalo Bills Foundat…Foundation for Jewish…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY40.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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 Ferguson Electric Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferguson Electric Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ferguson Electric Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ferguson Electric Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 60 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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