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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of Ferguson Stillman Charitable Fund’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| 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 |
| The Geneseo Foundation SUNY Geneseo | $1,200 |
| Fairport Foindation | $1,200 |
| University of Rochester | $1,200 |
| Main-Transit Fire Dept Exempt Assoc | $1,150 |
| Risen Christ Lutheran Church | $1,100 |
| Aurora Players | $1,000 |
| Clarence Lions Club | $1,000 |
| PBS Foundation | $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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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
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
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%
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kaleida Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maddie B Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 90 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 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 VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds AMHERST POLICE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION QUEST ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GENESEO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 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
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 Stillman Charitable Fund 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
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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