Connecticut · Private foundation
Ferguson Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $352k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $59,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ferguson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $352k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $318k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $332k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $314k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $270k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $301k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucknell University | $357,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fairfield Theatre Company Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $163,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Rescue Association | $155,000 | 6 | 69% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $106,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $102,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dean College | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harbor House of Rochester Inc | $75,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Comfort Zone Camp Inc | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucknell University | $357,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fairfield Theatre Company Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $163,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Rescue Association | $155,000 | 6 | 69% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $106,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $102,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dean College | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harbor House of Rochester Inc | $75,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Comfort Zone Camp Inc | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Summit Church Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bowdoin College | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Telling Room | $19,596 | 4 | 1% |
| Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc | $18,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Beaver Country Day School Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge | $12,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fairfield Country Day School Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Release Recovery Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($376k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ferguson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Ferguson Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ferguson Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ferguson Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $352,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ferguson Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Ferguson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bucknell University ($357k), Fairfield Theatre Company Inc ($240k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($163k).
- Does Ferguson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ferguson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ferguson Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ferguson Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ferguson Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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