Ohio · Private foundation
Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation
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.
- $430k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $430k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $351k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $214k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $100k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $23k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Messianic Refuge | $210,000 | 3 | 84% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $154,995 | 4 | n/a |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Xcs Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kingdom Warriors Inc | $33,741 | 4 | n/a |
| One Bistro Inc | $32,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bloc Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Scripps Howard Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation give?
- Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $429,589 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), International (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Messianic Refuge ($210k), Compassion International Incorporated ($155k), Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ($115k).
- Does Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John a Schroth Family Char Tr, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Spaulding Foundation.
- Where is Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation based?
- Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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