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The Ferguson Family Foundation Trust Dtd 05-26-2010 C/O Expedition Trust

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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHealth$698kHousing & Shelter$523kReligion$206kYouth Development$140kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOF ABOVE$120,176
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL$100,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $80k → 12%JAMES A HENRY COMMUNITY YMCA: $5k → 12%MOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%ROOF ABOVE: $126k → 10%ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE SOUTH: $29k → 11%ST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $17k → 15%DIOCESE OF IKOT EKPENE OFFICE FOR THE MISSIONS: $10k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $500k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $80k → 12%JAMES A HENRY COMMUNITY YMCA: $5k → 12%ROOF ABOVE: $120k → 10%ST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $15k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $196k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $75k → 12%THE MISSION CHATTANOOGA: $100k → 12%ROOF ABOVE: $110k → 10%ST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $15k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $190k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $50k → 12%THE MISSION CHATTANOOGA: $32k → 12%SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $8k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $100k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $40k → 12%ST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $6k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $25k → 11%ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC: $10k → 12%SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%SEVEN BASKETS: $2k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $25k → 11%SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $25k → 11%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

IL
OH
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$2.6M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+2%

Still filing today

27%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthReligionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH PHOENIX
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M
  • ROOF ABOVE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $356k · revenue +45%
  • SM
    ST MARYS LEGACY CLINIC INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $335k

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • AD
    ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE SOUTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH PHOENIX: $1,061,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH PHOENIXST MARYS LEGACY CLINIC INC: $335,000 · OtherST MARYS LEGACY CLINIC INCST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherST ANTHONY SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATIONMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $167,000 · OtherMens Shelter of Charlotte IncMISSION CHATTANOOGA PARISH: $132,200 · OtherMISSION CHATTANOOGA PARISH+7 more: $172,141 · Other+7 moreROOF ABOVE INC: $356,176 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INCThe Coalition for Kids Inc: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $50,000 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthPARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$2,117,341Arts & Culture$356,176Youth Development$140,000Health$100,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $356,176 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $167,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Coalition for Kids Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Coalition for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ferguson Family Foundation Trust Dtd 05-26-2010 C/O Expedition Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ferguson Family Foundation Trust Dtd 05-26-2010 C/O Expedition Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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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