· Private foundation
The Featherston 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL MO | $1,054,253 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VIVALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +75%
- CMCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +24%
- LMLIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP INC2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- WLWESTRAN LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CSCURRY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BIBLACKSBURG INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Macmurray college transforms students' lives by providing a career-directed liberal arts education, preparing students for personal and professional success and life-long learning.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Calvary university is an independent non-denominational institution providing undergraduate and graduate education which prepares christians to live and serve in the church and the world according to a biblical worldview. this is…
Central college is a residential liberal arts college dedicated to helping students discover and develop their greatest potential. guided by its ecumenical christian tradition, the college community engages in vigorous, open inquiry in…
The College of Idaho, a private, residential liberal arts college, prepares students to lead productive and fulfilling lives. We are committed to an innovative, individualized curriculum in liberal arts and professional studies, to…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.
Christian education
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Methodist University and the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds McClure River Valley Community Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Harbor Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEO Program for Continuing Education ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Featherston Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.