Texas · Private foundation
Rugeley Ferguson Foundation
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.
- $378k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Rugeley Ferguson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 29 | $378k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $211k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $367k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $221k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $300k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $320k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $67k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Special Forces Charitable Trust | $522,100 | 6 | 3% |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $394,675 | 7 | 1% |
| San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Red Arena Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rodeo Austin | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Texas Christian University | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Former Texas Rangers Foundation | $45,000 | 7 | 2% |
| San Antonio Museum of Art | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Witte Museum | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rugeley Ferguson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Nelson Puett Foundation · Horse Creek Trust · Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation · Ksl Family Foundation · Impetus Foundation · McCombs Foundation Inc · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324
How this is measured
About Rugeley Ferguson Foundation
- How much does Rugeley Ferguson Foundation give?
- Rugeley Ferguson Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $377,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Rugeley Ferguson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Animals (26%), Health (11%).
- Who are Rugeley Ferguson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Special Forces Charitable Trust ($522k), San Antonio Zoological Society ($395k), San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc ($85k).
- Does Rugeley Ferguson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rugeley Ferguson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rugeley Ferguson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Rugeley Ferguson Foundation based?
- Rugeley Ferguson Foundation is based in TX.
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