· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $24,000 |
| BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,735 |
| HOOP FOR THE VALLEY | $7,500 |
| BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE NORTHWEST | $3,000 |
| SALISH SEA SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY | $2,500 |
| SKAGIT ADULT DAY CARE | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SVSkagit Valley College Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +130%
- TSThe Skagit Valley Family YMCA4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
- BABURLINGTON-EDISON ALUMNI FOUNDATION DOLLARS FOR SC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- THTHE HUB AFTER SCHOOL - WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NTNORTHWEST TECNICAL ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- COCITY OF BURLINGTON FIRST STEP CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
To raise, manage and distribute funds to assure the continued availability of quality health care services and programs through skagit valley hospital. the foundation will foster community awareness of, and support for, skagit valley…
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
The Foundation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Our main focus is awarding scholarships to students, yearly awards for faculty/staff and assisting in the promotion and support of Yakima Valley College…
To be a catalyst for vibrant growth of each student in the Sequim School District.
The snohomish education foundation fosters learning by expanding opportunities for snohomish school district students.
To identify, collect, document and preserve objects of relevancy and to provide information reflecting the unique cultural history of skagit county, washington.
Educational opportunities for area students and alumni, providing scholarships and educational awards, and to develop those community relationships which support this mission.
The mission of the foundation is to engage community and build resources to support success for all students.
Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.
The primary purpose of the organization is to benefit young people in their academic pursuits, physical fitness, self-esteem and career choices in skagit county, washington.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Skagit Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Salish Sea School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 Skagit Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Skagit Valley Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bellingham Technical College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON-EDISON ALUMNI FOUNDATION DOLLARS FOR SC ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT ADULT DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE SALISH SEA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN THEATRE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOOP FOR THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY ↗
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: 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
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 Foundation 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.
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.