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The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation at a glance

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The Anne and David B Ford Jr 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.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$524kAnimals$371kRecreation & Sports$199kHuman Services$103kReligion$53kEnvironment$38kHealth$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Newport Young Mens Christian Association$50,000
New England Historic Genealogical Society and American Ancestors$50,000
Animal Medical Center Foundation$50,000
Haverford School$25,000
Squash Smarts Inc$20,000
Agnes Irwin School$15,000
Haverford School$5,210
Bryn Mawr Hospital$5,000
Duke University$5,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art$2,500
Vero Beach Museum of Art$2,500
Agnes Irwin School$2,500
Haverford School$2,500
Stanford Business School Alumni Association$2,500
Squash Smarts Inc$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Newport County YMCA: $50k → 7%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

WA
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MD
NC
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 13 repeat orgs$985k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
68

Total granted

$1.5M
$868k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+19%

Still filing today

85%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • TP
    THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $458k · revenue +71%
  • HS
    HAVERFORD SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $289k · revenue +17%
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2022 · $269k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • BT
    BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $210k · revenue -13%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $85k
  • AA
    AUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $64k · revenue -5%
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 of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
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
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County; the most unlike its peers is The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. 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

62 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. 62 of the 98 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $458,121 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT …BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $209,600 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCAUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC: $63,500 · Arts & CultureAUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC+12 more: $75,730 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUS Squash: $100,000 · OtherUS SquashMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (MET): $84,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (MET)NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,380 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICA…New England Historic Genealogical Society and American Ancestors: $50,000 · OtherNew England Historic Genealogica…Animal Medical Center Foundation: $50,000 · OtherAnimal Medical Center FoundationNew Eng Hist Genealogical society: $50,000 · OtherNew Eng Hist Genealogical societ…THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $35,180 · OtherGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 · OtherThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Christian Broadcasting Netwo…+47 more: $223,235 · Other+47 moreHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $288,519 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOLTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $56,600 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCH…THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $31,400 · EducationTHE NATIONAL SPORTI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNI…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · Education+7 more: $17,750 · EducationTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $268,500 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL M…+1 more: $3,000 · AnimalsSQUASHSMARTS INC: $98,500 · Recreation & SportsSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $100,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12,000 · EnvironmentAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 · Environment+3 more: $1,500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$806,951Other$718,295Education$435,269Animals$271,500Recreation & Sports$145,500Human Services$100,500Environment$55,500

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 budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $458,121 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $288,519 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $268,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $209,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC: $98,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $56,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,380 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $31,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM: $22,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION: $15,470 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $11,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSQUASHDRIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS MUSIC AND ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT FILM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DRESDEN MUSIC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Hamilton Family Found…Hamilton Family Chari…Van Beuren Charitable…Frederick Henry Princ…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Ejmp Fund for Philant…Alletta Morris McBean…The de Ramel Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…Winifred M Purdy Foun…Olb Foundation IncHope Foundation
Hamilton Family FoundationPA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · The de Ramel Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Winifred M Purdy Foundation · Olb Foundation Inc · Hope 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 The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of 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 · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 98 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $259k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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