· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of FORD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| RED OAK FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OLDHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| BEEHIVE ALLIANCE | $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 |
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 (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 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UAUPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +15%
- BABEEHIVE ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +46%
- PGPickles Group Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k
- WIWHLOUISVILLE INC - RONALD MC'Done grant, 2021 · $4k
- UCUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Caring and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 77 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 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 THE DIAMOND CLUB OF HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
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: 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
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 Ford Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.