How much did JC Ferguson Foundation Inc grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of JC Ferguson Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

scoutsgraduationchildren'sscholarships

2020

children'sscholarships

2021

scolarships

2022

scolarshipsbenefitfacility

2023

childrensscholarships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k6 grants · $25k
$10k–50k39 grants · $978k
$50k–250k11 grants · $766k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants

The University of Texas Permian Basin$100,000
Odessa College Foundation Incorporated$95,000
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin$82,500
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center$75,000
IDEA Public Schools$71,430
Permian Basin First Priority Inc$67,500
Boys and Girls Club of Odessa Inc$60,000
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center for Crippled Children and Adults$60,000
Permian Basin Womens Resource Center Inc$55,000
Birthright of Odessa Inc$50,000
West Texas Food Bank$50,000
Permian Playhouse of Odessa Inc$45,000
West Texas Gifts of Hope Inc$45,000
United Way of Odessa Inc$40,000
American National Red Cross$40,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $891k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.8M · 81 repeat orgs$755k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -60% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 41 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.8M

$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

-60%

Still filing today

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther

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 Incorporated
6× · 2018–2023 · $910k · revenue +207%
IP
IDEA Public Schools
5× · 2019–2023 · $357k · revenue +137%
WT
West Texas Food Bank
6× · 2018–2023 · $230k · revenue +110%

Funded once

EN
Ellen Noel Art Musuem of Permian Basin
one grant, 2022 · $75k
PB
Permian Basin Women's Resource Cent
one grant, 2018 · $50k
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.

Christian Homes of Abilene Inc

To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.

Human Services

Permian Basin - Be the Change

To inspire and strengthen the Permian Basin community by creating and implementing experiential workshops in schools, which shall develop the capacity of students, faculty, and staff to effectively address social problems often found in…

Youth Development

Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal

Junior League of Odessa Inc

To promote voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Community Improvement

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

Oklahoma Halfway House Inc

Assist individuals experiencing homelessness with urgent critical needs, like housing.

Health

Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services

Womens Center of Brazoria County Inc

Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Human Services

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

Texoma Family Shelter

Provide assistance to those in need of shelter and food and assist them to prevent homelessness.

Human Services

Parker County Center of Hope Inc

Helping people in poverty or crisis with basic assistance, job preparedness and educational opportunities.

Human Services

Christian Service Center of Abilene

The Organization provides benevolent assistance and spiritual ministry to people in need.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Children and Families Inc 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.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

13%

3,227/24,244

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.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,511,000Education$1,392,150Human Services$1,026,000Arts & Culture$496,500Health$482,500Philanthropy$405,000Civil Rights$250,000

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.

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.

Permian Basin Area FoundationTX70× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Birthright of Odessa Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 751946834 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Birthright of Odessa Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JC Ferguson Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

JC Ferguson Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to JC Ferguson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph