· Private foundation
Gerald J Ford Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Gerald J Ford Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Communities Foundation Of Texas Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Gerald J Ford Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $628k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS | $400,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
| PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Gerald J Ford Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Southern Methodist University4× · 2017–2023 · $9.8M · revenue +57%- TETHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $630k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GBGREEN BEETZ INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -50%
- YOYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +28%
- GAGREENWICH ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +31%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GREEN BEETZ INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ) ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald J Ford Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald J Ford Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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