Ohio · Private foundation
Ford Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Ford Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 12 | $68k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $57k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $38k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $32k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $26k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $17k | 85% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $15k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $12k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Arlington Education Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Beehive Alliance | $20,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Pickles Group Inc | $17,000 | 3 | 1% |
| TKO Parkinsons Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 8% |
| Oldham County Public Library | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Red Oak Family Foundation | $12,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Ford Family Fhilanthropic Inc | $7,677 | 3 | n/a |
| Pelotonia | $5,381 | 3 | 0% |
| Barrington Elementary PTO | $4,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Seeds of Caring | $4,431 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ford Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chester Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · The Kroger Co Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Ford Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ford Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ford Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $69,816 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ford Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (26%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Ford Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Arlington Education Foundation ($25k), Beehive Alliance ($20k), Pickles Group Inc ($17k).
- Does Ford Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ford Family Foundation Inc 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 Ford Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, Cardinal Health Foundation.
- Where is Ford Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ford Family Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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