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JC Ferguson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$3.0MEducation$2.5MHealth$1.8MArts & Culture$1.5MYouth Development$730kFood & Nutrition$635kEnvironment$500kPhilanthropy$390kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $745k
$22,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of Texas Permian Basin$105,000
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center$80,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin$60,000
Birthright of Odessa Inc$60,000
Odessa Rehab Center$60,000
Boys and Girls Club of Odessa Inc$60,000
Odessa College Foundation Incorporated$50,000
West Texas Food Bank$50,000
Odessa College Building Fund$50,000
Midland Odessa Symphony and Chorale Inc$50,000
American National Red Cross$50,000
The Life Center$45,000
Meals on Wheels of Odessa Incorporated$45,000
Harmony Home Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Buckner Children & Family Services: $40k → 14%Methodist Childrens Home: $32k → 16%American National Red Cross: $50k → 14%Buckner Children & Family Services: $40k → 14%Methodist Childrens Home: $32k → 16%American National Red Cross: $50k → 14%Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin: $30k → 14%Methodist Childrens Home: $32k → 16%American National Red Cross: $40k → 14%Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin: $30k → 14%Centers for Children Families: $40k → 12%Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin: $25k → 14%Buckner Children & Family Services: $25k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Service: $25k → 14%Buckner Children & Family Services: $20k → 14%Centers for Children and Families Inc: $30k → 12%Buckner Children and Family Service: $20k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Service: $20k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $35k → 16%Centers for Children and Families Inc: $25k → 12%Odessa Family YMCA: $35k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Centers for Children and Families Inc: $25k → 12%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Centers for Children Families: $20k → 12%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $30k → 16%Centers for Children Families: $20k → 12%Centers for Children & Families: $20k → 12%Centers for Children Families: $20k → 12%Jesus House Odessa: $43k → 16%Jesus House Odessa: $40k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $40k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $40k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $35k → 16%Jesus House Odessa: $32k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $30k → 16%Jesus House Odessa: $25k → 16%Odessa Links: $20k → 16%Odessa Links: $20k → 16%Odessa Links: $20k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $20k → 16%Odessa Links Inc: $20k → 16%Odessa Links: $20k → 16%Odessa Links Inc: $20k → 16%Odessa Links: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
OH
MO
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 92 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
16

Total granted

$13M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OC
    ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +206%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    7× · 2019–2025 · $464k · revenue +123%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $330k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • EN
    Ellen Noel Art Musuem of Permian Basin
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • BC
    Buckner Children Family Services
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Odessa Affordable Housing Inc

To improve housing conditions within Odessa, Texas through credit counseling, homebuyer education and home building/ rehabilitation programs that is affordable for low to moderate income residents.

Housing & Shelter
2
Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc

Catholic charities/community services odessa, inc is a social service agency in the diocese of san angelo, tx catholic charities under the diocesan bishop accepts the responsibility to promote the physical

Human Services
3
Permian Basin Animal Advocates

Permian basin animal advocates strives to educate and help the public with spay and neuter while also rescuing abandoned or unwanted animals and finding them forever homes.

Animals
4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Odessa Christian School

Odessa christian school provides primary education and associated services

Education
6
Casa of West Texas

The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.

Civil Rights
7
Texoma Family Shelter

Feed and house homeless families, counsel and help them prepare for job interviews, assist in completing forms for govt assistance, and provide rent/utilities assistance. Coordinate with local food bank.

Human Services
8
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
9
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
10
Permian Basin Womens Resource Center the Life Center Foundation

The life center foundation shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of the permian basin women's resource center (the life center) by making grants to or for the benefit of the life center, and/or engaging in activities that support…

Human Services
11
Heart of Texas Baptist Camp and Conference Center

Provide facilities, services, and programming for churches and groups to promote Christian education character building activities and recreation.

Religion
12
Odessa Chamber of Commerce

The odessa chamber of commerce is a volunteer business organization providing leadership to further develop and market the city of odessa, ector county, and the permian basin.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is White Pool House Friends. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Business ChambersAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Affordable Housing Developm…Civic Advocacy and Governan…Basic Needs & Crisis Assist…Child & Family Mental Healt…Independent Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr14%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr14%24%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
14%
5,396/37,232

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.

04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 124 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Texas of the Permian Basin — $500,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas of the Permian BasinBoys Girls Club of Odessa — $365,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of OdessaWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $330,000 · OtherThe University of Texas Permian Basin — $305,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT OF ODESSA INC — $300,000 · OtherCRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS — $295,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC — $295,000 · OtherSalvation Army — $275,000 · OtherTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center — $235,000 · OtherPERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY — $287,500 · Other+73 more — $3,426,400 · Other+73 moreODESSA FAMILY YMCA — $250,000 · Human ServicesODESSA FAMILY YMCAPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER — $225,000 · Human ServicesPERMIAN BASIN MISS…HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $205,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY HOME CHILD…SAMARITAN CENTER INC — $205,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CENTER I…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHILDR…JESUS HOUSE ODESSA INC — $197,000 · Human ServicesJESUS HOUSE ODESSA…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN &…ODESSA LINKS INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesODESSA LINKS INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $140,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …ADDYS HOPE SOCIAL SERVICES — $125,000 · Human ServicesADDYS HOPE SOCIAL …METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $112,000 · Human ServicesThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesVRDUR FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,060,000 · EducationODESSA COLLEGE…IDEA Public Schools — $464,295 · EducationIDEA Public Sc…APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC — $162,000 · EducationAPHASIA CENTER…+2 more — $30,120 · EducationPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER — $270,000 · HealthWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $235,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $165,000 · HealthPINK THE BASIN INC — $112,500 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $65,000 · HealthHouse of the Sycamore Tree — $45,000 · Health+2 more — $27,500 · HealthELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $255,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN PLAYHOUSE OF ODESSA INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $170,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE POOL HOUSE FRIENDS — $119,000 · Arts & CultureODESSA SYMPHONY GUILD — $80,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF ODESSA INC — $385,000 · PhilanthropyODESSA ECTOR PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA — $245,000 · Youth DevelopmentHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH ENDOWMENT INC — $115,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$6,613,900Human Services$2,215,000Education$1,716,415Health$920,000Arts & Culture$899,000Philanthropy$490,000Youth Development$366,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,060,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $464,295 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ODESSA INC — $385,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $330,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF ODESSA INC — $300,000 over 8y, 74% of budgetCRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS — $295,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC — $295,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY — $287,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER — $270,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $255,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetODESSA FAMILY YMCA — $250,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA — $245,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $235,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER — $225,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $205,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $205,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPERMIAN PLAYHOUSE OF ODESSA INC — $200,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $200,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $200,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetJESUS HOUSE ODESSA INC — $197,000 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $190,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $170,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $165,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC — $162,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetCASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC — $161,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetODESSA LINKS INC — $160,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE — $160,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADDYS HOPE SOCIAL SERVICES — $125,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetWHITE POOL HOUSE FRIENDS — $119,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH ENDOWMENT INC — $115,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPINK THE BASIN INC — $112,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $112,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetODESSA ECTOR PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetVRDUR FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetODESSA SYMPHONY GUILD — $80,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ODESSA — $74,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetTMTA Foundation — $70,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGrand Companions Humane Society — $57,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $52,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHouse of the Sycamore Tree — $45,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $40,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetThe West Texas Jazz Society Inc — $32,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN PLAYHOUSE OF ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds JESUS HOUSE ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA LINKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Permian Basin Area Fo…Fmh FoundationScharbauer Foundation…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …Pevehouse Family Foun…Helen Greathouse Char…Junior League of Odes…The Fasken FoundationBeal FoundationThe Henry FoundationBryant Family Foundat…
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX60.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Junior League of Odessa Inc · The Fasken Foundation · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation

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 JC Ferguson Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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