About
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide Catholic organizations with advice and counsel on the best possible use of their temporal resources as they work to further their missions.
O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan, and Conway (O’Meara Ferguson) integrates specifically crafted financial strategies, unmatched access to capital financing alternatives, investment management advice, and stewardship-based fundraising counsel to manage and leverage financial assets to build our clients’ fiscal strength and independence.
Our Story
Since its inception in 2000, O’Meara Ferguson has established itself as both an innovator and an authority in Church-related project financing and financial matters.
We have arranged project financing that has enabled over $1 billion of construction for 100 separate facilities including cathedrals, convents, monasteries, parishes, high schools, and Catholic Charities facilities. Additionally, O’Meara Ferguson has provided counsel on some of the most successful diocesan fundraising campaigns, raising nearly $1 billion in gifts and managing the efforts of tens of thousands of campaign volunteers.
O’Meara Ferguson is recognized by major money center banks, international investment banking firms, bond rating agencies, and insurance companies as the knowledge leader regarding Church finances. We are viewed as a trusted advisor to Catholic dioceses, religious institutes, high schools and universities regarding strategic planning, finance, capital project financing, development counsel, and stewardship education.
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Advantages
By lowering capital costs, mitigating risk, and applying appropriate and tailored financial strategies, O’Meara Ferguson enables its clients to eliminate chronic liquidity challenges, develop more, and deeper donor relationships, build needed facilities sooner, accelerate growth, reach a greater audience, and realize their mission more fully.
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Dedication
O’Meara Ferguson is dedicated to facilitating clients to more easily manage the growing financial complexity of their institutions, thereby enabling them to devote more time to the missions that originally inspired their vocations.
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Services
O’Meara Ferguson is a highly specialized financial services and development counseling firm that provides financial and strategic consulting, capital resource and investment management advisory services, development and fundraising counsel, and stewardship education to dioceses, Catholic schools and universities, religious orders, and other organizations related to and part of the Catholic Church.
Our Logo
The O’Meara Ferguson logo features a pelican feeding her young offspring, a symbol of charity that is part of Catholic liturgical tradition and stewardship. Legend states that the mother pelican – in times of famine – wounded herself, striking her breast with the beak to feed her young with her blood and prevent starvation.
