· Private foundation
Ferguson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING TRANSITIONS | $10,000 |
| MOUNT NITTANY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| RULE 62 CLUB | $5,000 |
| JANA MARIE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS | $2,500 |
| CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $2,500 |
| STATE COLLEGE FOOD BANK | $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 (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +19%
- HTHOUSING TRANSITIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +77%
- JMJANA MARIE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- ASANDY SCHRAM FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $3k
- DWDOUG WEST D-FENDERSone grant, 2017 · $500
- GMGHANA MEDICAL RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Mental health therapy
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…
Centre foundation formed to receive, hold and administer funds for the benefit of the community. endowment funds generate earnings for grants to local 501(c)(3) organizations for the benefit of arts, humanities, culture, education,…
Mount nittany's mission: we are here to make people healthier.mount nittany medical center will provide every patient with the finest, patient-centered care in a safe and comfortable environment. continued on schedule o.care will be…
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
A community based organization developed to help meet the primary health care needs of the working uninsured and the underinsured populations in luzerne county, pa. the program provides free primary and preventative health services for…
Provides assistance to single mothers with dependent children experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness in bucks and montgomery counties in pennsylvania.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
Human services, inc. is dedicated to hope, healing and recovery. we are committed to the highest quality of professional treatment programs and residential and homeless support services to the individuals, families and communities we serve…
Provide emergency medical services.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ghana Medical Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JANA MARIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds RULE 62 CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FUND OF PENNS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds GHANA MEDICAL RELIEF ↗
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: Centre Foundation Inc · The Louis E Silvi Foundation · The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation · Centre County United Way · The Hamer Foundation · Loviscky Ohana Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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 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.
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