· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $59,000 |
| FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUND | $35,000 |
| LAKE RESCUE ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $18,500 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF ROCHESTER | $17,500 |
| COMFORT ZONE CAMP | $17,000 |
| GREENFIELD HILL CONG CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE TELLING ROOM | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSP FRIENDS OF PEDIATR | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Bucknell University6× · 2020–2025 · $357k · revenue +28%- FTFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +15%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $163k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SCSUMMIT CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TBTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +34%
- CCConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challengeone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -52%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beaver Country Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Inc 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.
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fairfield Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dean College — 0% 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.