Texas · Private foundation
JC Ferguson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations JC Ferguson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 67 | $1.8M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $1.9M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.6M | 2% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $1.6M | 49% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odessa College Foundation Inc | $1,185,000 | 9 | 13% |
| University of Texas of the Permian Basin | $625,000 | 6 | n/a |
| IDEA Public Schools | $464,295 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Odessa Inc | $445,000 | 9 | 5% |
| West Texas Food Bank | $365,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Permian Basin First Priority | $327,500 | 6 | 21% |
| Meals on Wheels of Odessa Inc | $325,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Odessa | $302,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Birthright of Odessa Inc | $300,000 | 8 | 74% |
| Crisis Center of West Texas | $295,000 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
JC Ferguson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 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: 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
How this is measured
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About JC Ferguson Foundation Inc
- How much does JC Ferguson Foundation Inc give?
- JC Ferguson Foundation Inc reported 68 grants totaling $1,802,235 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does JC Ferguson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Education (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are JC Ferguson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Odessa College Foundation Inc ($1.2M), University of Texas of the Permian Basin ($625k), IDEA Public Schools ($464k).
- Does JC Ferguson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does JC Ferguson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as JC Ferguson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Permian Basin Area Foundation, Fmh Foundation.
- Where is JC Ferguson Foundation Inc based?
- JC Ferguson Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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