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Roger & Sybil Ferguson Charitable F

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.

$343k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$322kReligion$277kHuman Services$169kHealth$143kFood & Nutrition$95kArts & Culture$47kRecreation & Sports$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $267k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER$37,200
HOPE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
JUMP THE MOON FOUNDATION$25,000
EDGEMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$21,000
RIVER SIDON PEACE WITH$20,000
MADISON HIGH SCHOOL$13,000
Individual grant recipient$11,000
QUEEN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SOLEY FOR KIDS SHOE DRIVE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NAUVOO ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
MAPLE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
ELKO INSTITUTE OF ACADEMIC$10,000
PLAY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%HOPE STREET GROUP: $25k → 7%ENCIRCLE: $25k → 8%ENCIRCLE: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NV
OH
CA
UT
AZ
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$779k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
40

Total granted

$1.5M
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

26%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HM
    HOPE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • AB
    ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IF
    IDAHO FALLS SCHOOL DIST 91
    one grant, 2022 · $48k
  • NE
    NEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -27%
  • FT
    Flourish Therapy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +111%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Idaho School Psychologist Assoc

Provide traing that assists school psych

Philanthropy
3
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc

Ronald McDonald House Mountain West surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children.

Health
5
Teen Lifeline Inc

To prevent teen suicide in Arizona by enhancing resiliency in youth and fostering supportive communities. Vision is that all youth possess a sense of connectedness and hope for their future. Teen Lifeline has a singular focus to prevent…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
7
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation
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8
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
9
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
10
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
11
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
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12
Camp Hobe Inc

Camp hobe provides psychosocial support for children with cancer (and similar disorders) and their families.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Idaho Aquarium Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHAEL D FERGUSON CHARITABLE: $1,000,000 · OtherMICHAEL D FERGUSON CHARITABLECHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER: $101,720 · OtherOUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH TEMPE: $76,813 · Other+63 more: $732,219 · Other+63 moreHOPE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthFlourish Therapy Inc: $25,000 · HealthSPRINGS OF REDEMPTION: $18,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCHAMPS HEART INC: $10,000 · HealthREXBURG FREE CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthCommunity Youth In Action Inc: $5,000 · HealthEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $30,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHope Street Group: $25,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $5,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyJUMP THE MOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUNDS SUMMER MUSICAL INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,910,752Health$143,000Human Services$103,000Food & Nutrition$65,000Philanthropy$45,000Arts & Culture$27,000Civil Rights$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetNEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFlourish Therapy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMP THE MOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHope Street Group: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSPRINGS OF REDEMPTION: $18,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMADISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI Am Zambia Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetQuartz Hill Elementary PTSO: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCampo Verde High School Coyote Club: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHAMPS HEART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREXBURG FREE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumanitarian Experience Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Lowell Animal Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAZ FIRE BASKETBALL CLUB: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEAST IDAHO AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 HOPE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds Flourish Therapy Inc ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds JUMP THE MOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hope Street Group ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGS OF REDEMPTION ↗
  • Who funds MADISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Idaho Community Foundation IncID12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Roger & Sybil Ferguson Charitable F funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger & Sybil Ferguson Charitable F. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Roger & Sybil Ferguson Charitable F 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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