· Private foundation
Walter R Ferguson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Walter R Ferguson Charitable Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Collier County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Walter R Ferguson Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $510k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANCER ALLIANCE OF NAPLES | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIET | $100,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| PROJECT LIBERTY SHIP-BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY CORRECTIONS DIVISION | $25,000 |
| SOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE | $25,000 |
| PURE THOUGHTS INC | $25,000 |
| LABELLE DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION | $25,000 |
| CLINIC FOR THE REHAB OF WILDLIFE | $20,000 |
| IRON GAIT PERCHERONS | $20,000 |
| SENIOR HOUNDSABOUND INC | $20,000 |
| THE PENN STATE IFC | $10,000 |
| GENTLE SOULS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| HUSKY BASEBALL CLUB | $5,000 |
| ROYAL ANIMAL REFUGE INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…
Rescue rehab and rehome dogs and horses in need. We rescue them from auction shelters the streets etc.
To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Rescue senior dogs from shelters; people who go into nursing homes; people who have passed.We get their medical needs taken care of; then we will try to find them their forever homes. We work with seniors who are needing a companion and…
The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. the sanctuary offers two primary programs…
beagle rescue
Our mission is to provide aid and sanctuary to abused, neglected, abandoned or donated horses that come to us in need. to work with law enforcement and other agencies in their efforts to rectify situations in which horses are in peril. to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PURE THOUGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LABELLE DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SENIOR HOUNDSABOUND INC ↗
- Who funds Iron Gait Percherons Inc ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds DR BOB'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Froth and Bubble Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Walter R Ferguson Charitable 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% 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.