· Private foundation
Ferguson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANNER ELK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $16,810 |
| HIGH COUNTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,100 |
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE | $2,900 |
| ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS | $1,000 |
| THE TUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF | $310 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA | $100 |
| BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| ASHVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50 |
| GOOCHLAND CHRISTMAS MOTHER | $50 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- THThe High Country Charitable Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +27%
- WCWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WMWILLIAM MARYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TVThe Virginia Homegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue +54%
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2018 · $150
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.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…
The mission of the valentine is to engage, educate and challenge a diverse audience by collecting, preserving and interpreting richmond's history.
To develop, maintain and administer a historical garden.
The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.
The mission of goodwin house incorporated ("ghi") is to support, honor and uplift the lives of older adults and the people who care for them through a faith-based, nonprofit organization affiliated with the episcopal church.
The mission of uvachf is to raise community support and funding through charitable giving for much needed programs, improved facilities, and state of the art technology for uva community health, an integral part of uva health. uva…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Club of Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 The High Country Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND CHRISTMAS MOTHER ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Capa Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Mary Ratrie Wick Family Foundation · The Mraz Charitable Trust
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 Ferguson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.