· Private foundation
Ferrell Scruggs 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALWOOD SCHOOL | $52,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA GA | $50,000 |
| GREATER VALDOSTA UNITED WAY | $40,000 |
| SHEPERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AH TURNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $16,350 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $11,000 |
| COASTAL GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTH GEORGIA | $4,005 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF COASTAL GEORGIA | $4,000 |
| PEACH STATE SUMMER THEATRE | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH | $3,000 |
| ATTAPULGUS CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCoastal Georgia Historical Society5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +23%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +22%
- ESEmpty Stocking Fund Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- ACATTAPULGUS CHURCHATTAPULGUS GAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- EBEMORY BRAIN HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 44 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.
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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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Harley Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · Second Harvest of South Georgia Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferrell Scruggs Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferrell Scruggs Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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