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The Featherston Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$122kHuman Services$113kFood & Nutrition$82kHealth$49kReligion$9kCommunity Improvement$6kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,054,253
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL MO$1,054,253
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $4k → 14%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%FOOD BANK- CENTRAL NORTHEAST MO: $6k → 17%FEATHERSTON LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%BLUE RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN PRODUCE PICKUP PROGRAM: $4k → 8%CURRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%NEW RIVER COMM ACTION - BLACKSBURG: $8k → 14%BLACKSBURG INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 21%BINNS-COUNTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 23%MADISON AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - CAMP KU'UMBA: $4k → 19%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%FOOD BANK- CENTRAL NORTHEAST MO: $6k → 17%WESTRAN LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%NEW RIVER COMM ACTION - BLACKSBURG: $7k → 14%BINNS-COUNTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 23%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%FOOD BANK- CENTRAL NORTHEAST MO: $5k → 17%LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $8k → 17%NEW RIVER COMM ACTION - BLACKSBURG: $5k → 14%BINNS-COUNTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 23%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%FOOD BANK- CENTRAL NORTHEAST MO: $5k → 17%FEATHERSTON LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $8k → 6%NEW RIVER COMM ACTION - BLACKSBURG: $5k → 14%BINNS-COUNTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 23%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%FOOD BANK- CENTRAL NORTHEAST MO: $5k → 17%FEATHERSTON LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $6k → 6%NEW RIVER COMM ACTION - BLACKSBURG: $4k → 14%MCCLURE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 23%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%FEATHERSTON LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $6k → 6%NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION - BLACKSBURG INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $4k → 14%MCCLURE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 23%CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%FEATHERSTON LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR: $8k → 17%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $6k → 6%LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $8k → 17%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $6k → 6%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $6k → 6%ARC OF NORTHERN VA: $4k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC-LAUREL LEARNING: $3k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC-LAUREL LEARNING: $3k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC-LAUREL LEARNING: $3k → 6%NO VA ASSOC FOR EDUCATION: $4k → 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.
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$353k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+23%

Still filing today

32%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • VI
    VALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +75%
  • CM
    CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +24%
  • LM
    LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • WL
    WESTRAN LIVING MEMORIAL SCHOLAR
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • CS
    CURRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • BI
    BLACKSBURG INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
2
Macmurray College

Macmurray college transforms students' lives by providing a career-directed liberal arts education, preparing students for personal and professional success and life-long learning.

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3
Central Christian College of the Bible

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.

Education
4
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
5
Calvary University

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…

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6
Central College

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…

Education
7
The College of Idaho Inc

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…

Education
8
Central Christian College of Kansas

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.

Education
9
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
10
Christian Center of the Ozarks

Christian education

Religion
11
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
12
Kentucky Christian University

The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Methodist University; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL MO: $1,054,253 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL MO+26 more: $305,650 · Other+26 moreVALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesSafe Harbor Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $29,400 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $4,000 · EducationMcClure River Valley Community Development Center Inc: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,100 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,359,903Human Services$37,000Education$33,400Recreation & Sports$6,000Arts & Culture$2,100

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 budgetVALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $32,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $29,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMcClure River Valley Community Development Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSafe Harbor Center Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEO Program for Continuing Education: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $2,900 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,100 over 3y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Featherston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Featherston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 33 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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