Colorado · Private foundation
Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $133k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 60 | $133k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $132k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $214k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $133k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $125k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $161k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $145k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 70 | $131k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation Nw | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Multicultural Music Fellowship | $33,000 | 8 | 40% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $23,025 | 7 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $23,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($406k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 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: Seattle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Whatcom Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Palo Alto Rotary Club Annual Charities Inc · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Islands Fund
How this is measured
Compare Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation with peer funders
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About Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation
- How much does Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation give?
- Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $132,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Environment (26%), Education (13%).
- Who are Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Conservation Nw ($64k), University of Colorado Foundation ($50k), Wellesley College ($46k).
- Does Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, L Brands Foundation, The Palo Alto Community Fund.
- Where is Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation based?
- Robert & Elizabeth Fergus Foundation is based in CO.
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