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Mark & Kathryn Ford Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$353k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$341k
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 2024.

Education$2.7MHealth$31kEnvironment$18kCrime & Legal$15kInternational$15kArts & Culture$12kPhilanthropy$5kReligion$1k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $250k+1 grant · $341k
$11,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUNLIMON DE LA EDUCATION TECHNICA Y LIMON$341,228
MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AMERICAN ART$11,200
KINGS RANSOM FOUNDATION$500
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.

US giving: 10% of grant dollars ($269k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 90% that went abroad ($2.6M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
CA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 90% of all-years giving ($2.6M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Nicaragua$2.2M · 7 grants
OC$341k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 9 repeat orgs$391k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +162% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$2.4M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+162%
+37%

Still filing today

44%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • MU
    MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +23%
  • CG
    Community Greening Corp
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +360%
  • TF
    THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +5%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +23%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust; the most unlike its peers is Museum of Central American Art. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUNLIMON: $1,302,570 · OtherFUNLIMONFUNDACION PARA LA PROMOCION: $909,268 · OtherFUNDACION PARA LA PROMOCIONFUNLIMON DE LA EDUCATION TECHNICA Y LIMON: $341,228 · OtherFUNLIMON DE LA EDUCATION TECHNICA Y LIMONIndividual grant recipient: $96,986 · Other+4 more: $60,984 · OtherMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $35,200 · EducationTHE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC: $20,500 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthCommunity Greening Corp: $12,811 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentKINGS RANSOM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · ReligionFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionMUSEUM OF CENTRAL AMERICAN ART: $11,200 · Arts & CulturePOETS HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$2,711,036Education$35,200Health$23,500Environment$17,811Religion$16,000Arts & Culture$12,200Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $35,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SANTA ANA HEALTH CLINIC INC: $20,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKINGS RANSOM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Greening Corp: $12,811 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CENTRAL AMERICAN ART: $11,200 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mark & Kathryn Ford Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark & Kathryn Ford Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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