Illinois · Private foundation
Clyde D Ford 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.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Clyde D Ford Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $4k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $5k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $4k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $5k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammond-Henry Hospital Foundation | $1,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Geneseo Youth Football Inc | $750 | 5 | n/a |
| Geneseo Chamber of Commerce | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Geneseo Youth Baseball Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspire Continuing Care | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Geneseo Communications Charitable Foundation · Geneseo Foundation
How this is measured
About Clyde D Ford Trust
- How much does Clyde D Ford Trust give?
- Clyde D Ford Trust reported 19 grants totaling $3,735 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Clyde D Ford Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (21%), Youth Development (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are Clyde D Ford Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Hammond-Henry Hospital Foundation ($1k), Geneseo Youth Football Inc ($750), Geneseo Chamber of Commerce ($350).
- Does Clyde D Ford Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clyde D Ford Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clyde D Ford Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Geneseo Communications Charitable Foundation, Geneseo Foundation.
- Where is Clyde D Ford Trust based?
- Clyde D Ford Trust is based in IL.
Play a game based on Clyde D Ford’s filings →