· Private foundation
Ferguson Family Foundation Ltd
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 $10k14 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $229k
- $250k+1 grant · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $332,382 |
| OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| HOT SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH | $54,000 |
| ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES | $50,000 |
| CRU | $39,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,138 |
| BELLIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SABBATH LIFE CORP | $4,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| EQUIP NET | $2,632 |
| WAYMAKER CHURCH | $2,500 |
| DAIRY CARES OF WISCONSIN | $2,500 |
| BAPTIST STUDENT CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +90%
- OBOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +30%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION DUE BY 123124one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION DUE BY 12312024one grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION DUE BY 123129one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Hoffmann Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 101 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 Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOWARD SUAMICO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mentors International ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DAIRY CARES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE SABBATH LIFE CORP FORMERLY - ABBEY OF THE HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds BELLIN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
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: John and Engrid Meng Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Michael & Leanne Haddad Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Bellin Memorial Hospital Inc · Chernick Family Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd
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 Ltd 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.