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· Private foundation
GERALDINE C AND EMORY M FORD FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$42k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants
5
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of GERALDINE C AND EMORY M FORD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$858k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ROSE HULMAN$20,000
- MT LAND RELIANCE$7,500
- POMONA COLLEGE$5,000
- SONOMA INTL FILM SOCIETY$5,000
- WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER$3,000
- ALDO LEOPOLD THEATER$1,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$204k · 12 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
15
Total granted
$204k
$25k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+116%
+20%
Still filing today
50%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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
- RHROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY3× · 2018–2020 · $48k · revenue +16%
- ESEASTERN SIERRA INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +116%
POMONA COLLEGE2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- LLLA LUZone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ETELLEN THEATRE RESTORATION FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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Westmont College
Westmont College is an undergraduate, residential, Christian, liberal arts community serving God's kingdom by cultivating thoughtful scholars, grateful servants and faithful leaders for global engagement with the academy, church and world.
Education
2
The Colorado College
To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.
Education
3
Western Colorado University
The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes
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4
Rocky Mountain College
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
Education
5
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
6
Wyoming Catholic College
Wyoming catholic college is a four-year coeducational catholic college based in lander, wyoming. wyoming catholic college's primary educational objective is to offer a traditional liberal arts education that schools the whole person in his…
Education
7
Pitzer College
Pitzer College is an educational institution focusing on undergraduate education.
Education
8
Williams College
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Education
9
Black Hills State University
To provide private gift support for bhsu. the foundation's purpose is to communiciate this to alumni, parents, friends, corporations, and foundations to obtain awarenes, understanding, acceptance, and support. the foundation also addresses…
Education
10
Whittier College
Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…
Education
11
Illinois Institute of Technology
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
Education
12
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Folklife Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$191,000Environment$20,250Education$13,000Arts & Culture$5,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GERALDINE C AND EMORY M FORD FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EASTERN SIERRA INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237253530 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on EASTERN SIERRA INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Geraldine C and Emory M Ford Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Geraldine C and Emory M Ford Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines