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The D'Brickashaw Ferguson Foundation Inc

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.

$58k
Granted FY2017
44
Grants FY2017
12
States reached
$6k
Largest
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01What it funds
01FY2017 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$322k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Howard University$6,000
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Nassau Community College$4,200
Hofstra University$3,790
Albany State University$3,000
Island Harvest Food Bank$3,000
New York Institute of Technology$2,700
Spelman College$2,500
Old Westbury College$2,400
Stony Brook University$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,600
Brooklyn College$1,200
Farmingdale State College$1,200
Molly College$1,000
College of New Rochelle$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Island Harvest Food Bank: $3k → 6%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

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
MD
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Island University; the most unlike its peers is Island Harvest Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 44 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNassau Community College: $4,200 · OtherNassau Community CollegeAlbany State University: $3,000 · OtherAlbany State UniversityOld Westbury College: $2,400 · OtherOld Westbury CollegeStony Brook University: $1,800 · OtherStony Brook UniversityIndividual grant recipient: $1,600 · OtherFarmingdale State College: $1,200 · OtherBrooklyn College: $1,200 · Other+20 more: $13,000 · Other+20 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $3,790 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,700 · EducationNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYSpelman College: $2,500 · EducationSpelman CollegeMERCY UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 · EducationJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+4 more: $800 · EducationISLAND HARVEST LTD: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$32,700Education$22,790Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $3,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The D'Brickashaw Ferguson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The D'Brickashaw Ferguson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 The D'Brickashaw Ferguson Foundation Inc 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 44 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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