Washington · Private foundation
Ferguson 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.
- $153k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,735
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Ferguson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 10 | $93k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $136k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $113k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $108k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $114k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $101k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $118k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $103k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skagit Valley College Foundation | $212,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Whatcom Community College Foundation | $100,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Skagit Valley Family YMCA | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Burlington-Edison Alumni Foundation Dollars for Sc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Skagit Adult Day Care | $43,250 | 9 | 4% |
| Burlington Rotary Foundation | $37,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salish Sea School | $19,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Helping Hands Food Bank | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| North Cascades Institute | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skagit Valley College Foundation | $212,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Whatcom Community College Foundation | $100,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Skagit Valley Family YMCA | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Burlington-Edison Alumni Foundation Dollars for Sc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Skagit Adult Day Care | $43,250 | 9 | 4% |
| Burlington Rotary Foundation | $37,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salish Sea School | $19,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Helping Hands Food Bank | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| North Cascades Institute | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Theatre Center Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kalamazoo College | $14,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Hoop for the Valley | $12,500 | 3 | 11% |
| Skagit Hospice Foundation | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mount Vernon Library Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Children of the Valley | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Burlington-Edison School District | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ferguson Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Skagit Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Jack and Shirley McIntyre Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Tucker Family Foundation · Building Changes · The Norcliffe Foundation · Janson Foundation
How this is measured
About Ferguson Foundation
- How much does Ferguson Foundation give?
- Ferguson Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $153,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ferguson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Ferguson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Skagit Valley College Foundation ($213k), Whatcom Community College Foundation ($100k), The Skagit Valley Family YMCA ($100k).
- Does Ferguson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ferguson Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Skagit Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Albertsons Companies Foundation.
- Where is Ferguson Foundation based?
- Ferguson Foundation is based in WA.
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