How much does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation give?

The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $849,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Environment (33%), Animals (10%).

Who are The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Burke Museum Association ($703k), Wing Luke Memorial Foundation ($385k), Woodland Park Zoological Society ($375k).

Does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.

Where is The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation based?

The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$850k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 70
Grants FY2025: 79
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 71 to 79; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $1.9M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	68	$805k	16%
FY2024	79	$1.0M	10%
FY2023	77	$912k	13%
FY2022	77	$1.0M	22%
FY2021	71	$897k	20%
FY2020	79	$900k	25%
FY2019	75	$1.1M	29%
FY2018	74	$903k	36%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.7MEnvironment$2.5MAnimals$763kEducation$550kRecreation & Sports$298kPhilanthropy$246kHuman Services$192kScience & Tech$65kOther$0

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
Burke Museum Association	$703,000	9	5%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation	$385,000	9	2%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$375,000	9	0%
The Seattle Aquarium Society	$320,000	9	0%
Jefferson County Historical Society	$264,000	9	25%
Alaska Wilderness League	$205,000	9	1%
American Indian College Fund	$180,000	8	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$180,000	6	0%
Humanities Washington	$172,500	8	3%
The Evergreen State College Foundation	$170,312	5	2%

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All grantees of The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Burke Museum Association	$703,000	9	5%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation	$385,000	9	2%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$375,000	9	0%
The Seattle Aquarium Society	$320,000	9	0%
Jefferson County Historical Society	$264,000	9	25%
Alaska Wilderness League	$205,000	9	1%
American Indian College Fund	$180,000	8	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$180,000	6	0%
Humanities Washington	$172,500	8	3%
The Evergreen State College Foundation	$170,312	5	2%
Seattle Parks Foundation	$150,000	4	1%
Port Townsend Marine Science Center	$149,500	4	11%
Town Hall Association	$147,500	9	1%
Potlatch Fund	$125,000	7	3%
Hanford Challenge Corporation	$107,000	9	4%
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation	$97,500	9	1%
Conservation Nw	$95,000	8	1%
University of Washington Foundation	$89,000	3	0%
Jefferson Land Trust	$85,000	5	1%
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC	$79,500	8	2%
Cook Inletkeeper	$77,500	8	1%
Braided River	$75,000	6	8%
Blackpastorg	$70,000	7	10%
Makah Cultural and Research Center	$70,000	4	2%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$70,000	6	0%
Columbia Riverkeeper	$68,000	7	0%
Earthcorps	$67,500	7	0%
North Cascades Institute	$67,500	8	0%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$67,500	9	1%
Long Live the Kings	$67,500	7	0%
Artsfund	$65,000	9	0%
History Ink	$62,500	9	2%
Cascade Forest Conservancy	$62,500	8	2%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County	$62,000	9	0%
Birds Connect Seattle	$61,000	7	1%
Friends of Seattle Waterfront	$60,000	3	0%
Solid Ground Washington	$60,000	7	0%
University of Washington	$58,500	2	n/a
Inland Northwest Land Trust	$55,000	5	0%
Washington Association of Land Trusts	$53,000	6	5%
Highline Heritage Museum	$52,500	6	5%
Homer Society of Natural History	$50,000	4	4%
Columbia Land Trust	$47,500	5	0%
Southwest Seattle Historical Society	$47,500	4	9%
Pacific Science Center Foundation	$47,500	6	0%
Re Sources	$47,500	5	1%
Western Rivers Conservancy	$45,000	5	0%
National Audubon Society Inc	$45,000	5	0%
Oregon Natural Desert Association	$43,000	5	1%
Washington's National Park Fund	$42,500	5	1%
Montana Wilderness Association	$42,500	5	0%
Community Roots Housing Foundation	$40,000	3	1%
Eastern Washington University Foundation	$40,000	4	0%
Save Our Wild Salmon	$40,000	4	1%
High Desert Museum	$37,500	5	0%
Tune In To Nature org	$37,500	4	3%
Naturebridge	$37,500	4	0%
Forterra Nw	$35,000	2	0%
Wild Salmon Center	$35,000	4	0%
Skagit Land Trust	$33,000	9	0%
Museum at Warm Springs	$31,000	3	2%
Northwest Maritime Center	$30,000	3	0%
Dungeness River Nature Center	$30,000	3	2%
Tasveer	$30,000	3	2%
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
Northwest African American Museum	$27,500	3	1%
City Fruit	$27,500	6	2%
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest	$27,500	3	1%
Philanthropy Northwest	$25,000	2	0%
Okanogan Land Trust	$25,000	3	2%
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship	$22,500	2	n/a
Great Peninsula Conservancy	$22,500	3	1%
Washington Wild	$20,000	2	1%
Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center	$20,000	2	2%
Friends of Discovery Park	$20,000	2	5%
The Whidbey Institute	$20,000	2	1%
Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company	$20,000	1	2%
Hedgebrook	$20,000	2	1%
Maryhill Museum of Art	$17,500	2	1%
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association	$17,500	2	0%
Yakima Greenway Foundation	$17,500	2	1%
Pcc Farmland Trust	$17,500	2	0%
Arboretum Foundation	$16,000	2	0%
Seattle Art Museum	$15,000	1	0%
Red Eagle Soaring	$15,000	3	3%
Museum of Glass	$15,000	3	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$15,000	2	0%
Communities for a Healthy Bay	$15,000	2	2%
Crow Fair Pow Wow	$15,000	1	5%
Oxbow Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment	$12,500	2	0%
Salish Sea Expenditions	$12,500	2	2%
Northwest Film Forum	$12,000	1	1%
Cascadia Art Museum	$11,000	2	1%
Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society	$10,000	1	2%
Seattle Chinese Garden Society	$10,000	1	9%
Friends of Mukai	$10,000	1	1%
University of Alaska Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Not an Alternative Inc	$10,000	1	1%
North Olympic Salmon Coalition	$10,000	1	0%
Anchorage Museum Association	$10,000	1	0%
Suquamish Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Tahoma Bird Alliance	$10,000	1	6%
Jefferson Clemente Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association	$10,000	1	0%
Companis Mission Workers Association	$10,000	1	1%
Boardsource	$10,000	1	0%
Front and Centered	$10,000	1	1%
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art	$10,000	1	0%
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust	$10,000	2	0%
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community	$10,000	1	17%
Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
National Nordic Museum	$10,000	1	0%
Documentaries Seattle	$10,000	1	6%
El Centro de la Raza	$8,000	1	0%
Stewardship Partners	$7,500	1	1%
Purrfect Pals	$7,500	9	0%
North Olympic Land Trust	$7,500	1	1%
Seattle University	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of Badger Mountain	$7,500	1	1%
National Parks Conservation Association	$7,500	1	0%
United Negro College Fund Inc	$7,200	7	0%
Japanese American Museum of Oregon	$7,000	1	1%
Southeast Effective Development	$5,000	1	0%
Killer Whale Tales	$5,000	1	7%
Nisqually Land Trust	$5,000	1	0%
Indigenous Creatives Collective	$5,000	1	n/a
Washington School Principals Education Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Tulalip Foundation	$5,000	1	4%
Duwamish Tribal Services Dba Duwamish Tribal Services Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Research and Development Services of America	$5,000	1	12%
Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Animeals	$5,000	1	1%
Islandwood	$5,000	1	0%
Reclaiming Our Greatness	$5,000	1	1%
Se Si Le	$5,000	1	n/a
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$5,000	1	1%
White River Valley Historical Society	$3,500	1	1%
Northwest Indian College	$3,000	6	0%
National Federation of the Blind of Washington	$2,700	9	0%
Tree House Humane Society Inc	$1,500	3	0%
St Labre Indian School	$1,500	3	n/a
Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals	$1,500	3	n/a
Pet Pride	$1,200	3	n/a
Defenders of Wildlife	$1,200	3	0%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$1,200	3	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 137.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA92.2× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaleidoscope Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Patagoniaorg · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Burning 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.

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About The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation

How much does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation give?: The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $849,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Environment (33%), Animals (10%).
Who are The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Burke Museum Association ($703k), Wing Luke Memorial Foundation ($385k), Woodland Park Zoological Society ($375k).
Does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.
Where is The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation based?: The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation is based in WA.