· Private foundation
Geraldine C and Emory M Ford 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| BOZEMAN SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| LONESTAR COWBOY POETRY GATHERING | $500 |
| WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER | $500 |
| KANSAS PUBLIC RADIO | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +87% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +65%
POMONA COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +87%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- ETELLEN THEATRE RESTORATION FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- LLLA LUZone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ETELLEN THEATREone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Kenyon college is a private liberal arts educational institution with approximately 1,800 students and 200 professors. the college has 18 departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs.
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 34 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 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR COWBOY POETRY GATHERING ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Geraldine C and Emory M Ford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geraldine C and Emory M Ford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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