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Glenda & Gordon Ford Fdn Irr Tr at a glance

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Glenda & Gordon Ford Fdn Irr Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$120kReligion$70kHuman Services$68kMembership Benefit$61kArts & Culture$8kHealth$8kYouth Development$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$15,000
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$12,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS$9,000
CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $12k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $6k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $5k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $1k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS PLACE: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +158% since the first grant, against +70% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$304k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+158%
+70%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureMembership BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +201%
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +152%
  • CH
    CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -39%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +74%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education
6
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Four County Comprehensive Mental Health Center Inc

Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
Ccmh Corporation

Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.

Health
11
Jefferson Center for Mental Health

To inspire hope, improve lives and strengthen our community by providing mental health and related solutions for individuals and families.

Health
12
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alice Lloyd College. 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

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 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $63,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $57,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INCCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $59,843 · OtherCHRIST UNITED METHODIST …CHRIST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH UNITED MET…+1 more: $2,000 · OtherTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $63,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCEN…THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $2,650 · Human Services+2 more: $3,152 · Human ServicesCAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $61,000 · Membership BenefitCAVE HILL HERITAGE F…FUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthMARYHURST INC: $2,000 · Youth Development
Education$120,000Other$71,843Human Services$68,802Membership Benefit$61,000Arts & Culture$8,000Health$6,000Youth Development$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $2,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $1,152 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Gheens Foundation…Cralle Foundation IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncBrown-Forman Foundati…V V Cooke Foundation …Lift a Life Foundatio…Republic Bank Foundat…The Community Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Glenda & Gordon Ford Fdn Irr Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glenda & Gordon Ford Fdn Irr Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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