· Private foundation
Ferguson 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $268k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roundup River Ranch | $300,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $250,000 |
| Vail Religious Foundation | $118,000 |
| Bravo Vail | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Vail Jazz Foundation | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRROUNDUP RIVER RANCH4× · 2017–2025 · $645k · revenue +73%
- LULoyola University Maryland Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +28%
- BVBravo Vail7× · 2019–2025 · $410k
Funded once
- EVEagle Valley Community Centerone grant, 2023 · $75k
- CFCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCERone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -19%
- WMWALKING MOUNTAINSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Eagle valley mental health (dba eagle valley behavioral health) primarily serves the behavioral health care needs of eagle county, and secondarily the region surrounding eagle county.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
We improve lives. in big ways through learning, healing and discovery. in small, personal ways through human connection. but in all ways, we improve lives.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Active Minds 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferguson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferguson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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