· Private foundation
John and Miki Ford Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS | $13,000 |
| CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES | $6,000 |
| CARMELITE SISTERS | $5,030 |
| THE GUIDING STAR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ARIZONA RIGHT TO LIFE | $5,000 |
| ST BERNADETTE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY | $2,500 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
| BEVERLY CULTURAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE PENINSULA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LEGATUS | $1,490 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $100 |
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 (FY19–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
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 +51% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NAPA INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2022 · $83k · revenue +65%
Augustine Institute Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +192%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM2× · 2019–2020 · $27k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- ODOPUS DEI (LEONINE FORUM)one grant, 2019 · $20k
JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +37%- FOFRIENDS OF THE TORONTO ORATORYone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -56%
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 62 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 THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds California Youth Services ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sacred Story Institute ↗
- Who funds Legatus ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TORONTO ORATORY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM ALLIANCE BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDING STAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEONINE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA RIGHT TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER ↗
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: Napa Institute Foundation · Angels Among US Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Miki Ford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Miki Ford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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