· Private foundation
Ferguson Stillman Charitable Fund
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christian Outreach of Central NY | $6,000 |
| Kaleida Health Foundation | $4,000 |
| Foundation for UB | $3,100 |
| South Buffalo Charter School | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Village at the Chapel | $1,500 |
| Fairport Foindation | $1,200 |
| The Geneseo Foundation SUNY Geneseo | $1,200 |
| University of Rochester | $1,200 |
| Main-Transit Fire Dept Exempt Assoc | $1,150 |
| Risen Christ Lutheran Church | $1,100 |
| Clarence Lions Club | $1,000 |
| Aurora Players | $1,000 |
| Newfield Travel Club | $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 (FY24–25, $818) 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 10 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%- APAURORA PLAYERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +56%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEARNING WEB INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- MQMISSION QUEST3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +7%
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.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the community foundation for greater buffalo, inc. (the foundation) is to connect people, ideas and resources to improve lives in western new york. since its establishment in 1919, the foundation has been committed to…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
Provide administrative support to the jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo and the faculty practice corporations affiliated with the medical school.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 90 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 KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING WEB INC ↗
- Who funds 441 Ministries Beechwood Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds CLARENCE CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERINTON FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds MISSION QUEST ↗
- Who funds AMHERST POLICE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GENESEO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Baird Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Rme Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · United Way Worldwide · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferguson Stillman Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferguson Stillman Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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