New York · Private foundation
Sharon & Bob 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.
- $288k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 40
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $242k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $180k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $96k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Enterprise Fund | $50,500 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yosemite Foundation | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $35,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $34,750 | 4 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation
- How much does Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation give?
- Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation reported 120 grants totaling $288,048 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 40 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Education (18%), Health (14%).
- Who are Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Village Enterprise Fund ($51k), San Francisco Symphony ($40k), Yosemite Foundation ($37k).
- Does Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation based?
- Sharon & Bob Ford Foundation is based in NY.
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