· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +26% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GMGHANA MEDICAL RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $500
- DWDOUG WEST D-FENDERSone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferguson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferguson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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