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The Mark Zurack & Kathy Ferguson Foundation

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.

$491k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$224kHousing & Shelter$96kPhilanthropy$62kFood & Nutrition$37kInternational$37kAnimals$30kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$165,200
NEW CLASSROOM INNOVATION PARTNERS$70,000
CARING KIND$50,000
HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION$25,500
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$20,485
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$20,000
PROJECT RENEWAL INC$20,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$17,600
TEACH FOR AMERICA$15,000
SBT CHARITABLE FUND$10,600
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$10,000
PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE$7,500
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$6,600
TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE$5,000
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $2k → 14%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $3k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $3k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 38 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
28

Total granted

$1.6M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NC
    NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $220k · revenue +11%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • HO
    HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $78k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • CH
    CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +22%
  • S
    SASF
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Bus Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Local History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,694

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
38/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $617,849 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INCNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC — $220,000 · EducationNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $80,985 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION — $78,000 · EducationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATIONSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $72,600 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INCCornell University — $70,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTeach for America Inc — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $24,625 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $150,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…PROJECT RENEWAL INC — $65,000 · HealthPROJECT RENEWA…THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,050 · Health+5 more — $5,000 · HealthSBT CHARITABLE FUND — $46,100 · OtherSBT CHARI…COMUNILIFE INC — $30,000 · OtherCOMUNILIF…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $8,500 · OtherCITYMEALS…CITY HARVEST INC — $6,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · OtherUNITED JE…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $6,600 · Other+30 more — $45,446 · Other+30 moreUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CARE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $14,000 · AnimalsTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · AnimalsPROJECT STREET VET — $3,000 · AnimalsHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $1,500 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 · AnimalsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $6,100 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $4,800 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $1,800 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $1,445 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE BUS PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $200 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,214,059Health$231,050Other$152,646Human Services$72,000Youth Development$52,500Animals$29,500Arts & Culture$21,345

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $617,849 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC — $220,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $80,985 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION — $78,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $72,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $52,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMUNILIFE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — $5,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC — $4,446 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $4,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,445 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC BAYKEEPER INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMERRIMANS CULINARY SCHOLARSHIP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Stephen and Debor…Daniel L Nir & Jill E…Mother Cabrini Health…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY17.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation · Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Mark Zurack & Kathy Ferguson Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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