· Private foundation
Rord 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SOUTH COAST SCIENCE PROJECT | $2,168 |
| MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA | $1,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SW MISSION RESEARCH CENTER | $500 |
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 8%. 99% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +62%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +196%- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
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."
The brinton museum connects people to the past, present and future of the american west through its historic quarter circle ranch, fine art, and american indian art collections.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The san diego museum of man, dba museum of us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the kumeyaay nation, in san diegos balboa park. the museum of us extends its respect and gratitude to the kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for…
To empower the museum to create and deliver innovative experiences andknowledge so the past can inform the future.
To respect and support the traditions and creative expressions of the native american peoples, and to present exhibitions and other public programs relating to them; to collect and document contemporary expressions of the navajo people…
The museum is dedicated to demonstrating mankind's ability to enhance human life through technological innovation by collecting, preserving and exhibiting mechanical and electrical artifacts.
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds QUOGUE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MISSION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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