· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +47%
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%
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 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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferguson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferguson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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