Maryland · Private foundation
Fordi Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $284k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Fordi Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 30 | $284k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $272k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $296k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $717k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $132k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $130k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $440k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $76k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minarys Dream Alliance Inc | $570,000 | 5 | 49% |
| Kent Cultural Alliance Inc | $277,500 | 7 | 14% |
| Horizons of Kent and Queen Anne's | $90,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Friends of Morningside Park Inc | $88,400 | 6 | 33% |
| Kent School Inc | $88,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chester River Health Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Palante Harlem Inc | $38,200 | 6 | 1% |
| The Gunston School Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Classical Theatre of Harlem Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($648k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fordi Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Gladwood Foundation · The Clifton Foundation Inc · W Paul Starkey Foundation · Friel Foundation Inc · Barbara L Thomas Foundation · Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn · United Way of Kent County Inc · Saner Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Fordi Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Fordi Family Foundation Inc give?
- Fordi Family Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $284,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Fordi Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (31%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Fordi Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minarys Dream Alliance Inc ($570k), Kent Cultural Alliance Inc ($278k), Horizons of Kent and Queen Anne's ($90k).
- Does Fordi Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fordi Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fordi Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, David a Bramble Foundation Inc, Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main.
- Where is Fordi Family Foundation Inc based?
- Fordi Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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