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Ford Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$92kEducation$72kPhilanthropy$26kCrime & Legal$23kHuman Services$17kEnvironment$8kYouth Development$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
ACCESS JUSTICE$10,000
TKO PARKINSON'S$7,000
PICKLES GOUP INC$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,316
OLDHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
BEEHIVE ALLIANCE$5,000
RED OAK FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
GOSHEN ELEMENTARY PTO$2,000
STAR HOUSE$2,000
CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE$2,000
BARRINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO$2,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$1,000
UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $525 → 8%A KID AGAIN: $2k → 16%A KID AGAIN: $136 → 15%FAMILIES FLOURISH: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
KY
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 33 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
39

Total granted

$225k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+18%

Still filing today

36%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UA
    UPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • BA
    BEEHIVE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • PG
    Pickles Group Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • BH
    BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • WI
    WHLOUISVILLE INC - RONALD MC'D
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • UC
    UA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
3
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
4
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
5
Columbus Children's Foundation

Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.

Health
6
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
7
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
8
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
Columbus Medical Association

We are physicians and other experts improving the health of caregivers, patients and communities.

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11
Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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12
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Caring; the most unlike its peers is This Must Be the Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS JUSTICE: $18,000 · OtherACCESS JUSTICEIndividual grant recipient: $14,316 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOLDHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,000 · OtherOLDHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYRED OAK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherRED OAK FAMILY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherPICKLES: $8,161 · OtherFORD FAMILY FHILANTHROPIC INC: $7,677 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,350 · OtherAPERT OWL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,727 · Other+44 more: $64,633 · Other+44 moreBEEHIVE ALLIANCE: $20,000 · HealthBEEHIVE ALLIANC…TKO Parkinsons Inc: $13,500 · HealthTKO Parkinsons …HOPE SCARVES INC: $1,500 · Health+6 more: $3,309 · Health+6 moreUPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUPPER ARLINGT…RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyRICHLAND COUN…COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUN…STAR HOUSE: $2,000 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSEPickles Group Inc: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDS OF CARING: $4,431 · Youth DevelopmentPELOTONIA: $5,381 · EducationBARRINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO: $4,700 · EducationTHE DIAMOND CLUB OF HUDSON INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsFLYING HORSE FARMS: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsA KID AGAIN INC: $2,136 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FLOURISH INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $525 · Human Services
Other$170,364Health$38,309Philanthropy$32,500Youth Development$21,431Education$10,081Recreation & Sports$4,000Human Services$3,661

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBEEHIVE ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetPickles Group Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTKO Parkinsons Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetPELOTONIA: $5,381 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO: $4,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSEEDS OF CARING: $4,431 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $2,136 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIAMOND CLUB OF HUDSON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE SCARVES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJANE'S ROOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCancerFree KIDS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FLOURISH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSantas Silent Helpers of Columbus Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $212 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIS MUST BE THE PLACE: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEEHIVE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Pickles Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds TKO Parkinsons Inc ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds BARRINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF CARING ↗
  • Who funds GOSHEN ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE DIAMOND CLUB OF HUDSON INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SCARVES INC ↗

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.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Cardinal Health Found…Baird Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Chester Family Fo…Harry C Moores Founda…United Way of Central…The Kroger Co Foundat…The Community Foundat…American Electric Pow…The Ayco Charitable F…
Columbus FoundationOH24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ford Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ford Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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