· Private foundation
Jack and Carolyn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $66,000 |
| HOMINY BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| ENKA HIGH BOOSTERS CLUB | $14,761 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +145%- BCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +66%
- MHMARS HILL UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MCMADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MCMountain Child Advocacy Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +128%
- WFWAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
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To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.
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St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack and Carolyn Ferguson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Carolyn Ferguson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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