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The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$9.7MPhilanthropy$2.0MCommunity Improvement$320kCivil Rights$200kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$150kScience & Tech$87kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Marymount School of New York$250,000
University Liggett School$250,000
The Gregory School$200,000
William Penn Charter School$150,511
Dunn School$100,000
Morgan Park Academy$100,000
Colorado Academy$100,000
The Wellington School$100,000
Charlotte Country Day School$100,000
Saint James School$100,000
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School$100,000
The ONeal School$100,000
TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL$100,000
University High School of Indiana$100,000
Drew School$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Gregory School: $200k → 15%Deerfield Academy: $120k → 14%Solebury School: $100k → 6%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2.0M → 7%William Penn Charter School: $151k → 22%BRANSON SCHOOL: $100k → 8%Head-Royce School: $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $250k → 10%VIEWPOINT SCHOOL: $100k → 14%Dunn School: $100k → 14%TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL: $100k → 9%Darrow School: $100k → 11%Garden School: $100k → 13%Nichols School: $100k → 13%THE KLINGENSTEIN CENTER TEACHERS COLLEGE: $100k → 17%Saint Ann's School: $100k → 20%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100k → 12%BOSQUE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%The New School: $100k → 14%NATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%University Liggett School: $250k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $250k → 11%GREENWICH ACADEMY: $150k → 9%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $100k → 11%HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $100k → 17%The ONeal School: $100k → 10%Charlotte Country Day School: $100k → 10%GASTON DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 12%FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 15%SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT: $150k → 9%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $100k → 13%Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $100k → 13%Colorado Academy: $100k → 7%University High School of Indiana: $100k → 5%The Wellington School: $100k → 15%THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $198k → 16%Lycee Francais de Chicago: $100k → 14%Saddle River Day School: $100k → 7%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $100k → 11%HUDSON SCHOOL: $100k → 14%WAKEFIELD SCHOOL: $100k → 6%AIMS (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT: $200k → 6%WAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $133k → 7%FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL: $120k → 7%IOLANI SCHOOL: $182k → 9%Marymount School of New York: $250k → 17%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $275k → 17%NIGHTINGALE BAMFORD SCHOOL: $115k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
64

Total granted

$2.4M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

62%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +8%
  • TS
    THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +34%
  • TG
    THE GREGORY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +53%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +17%
  • JB
    JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +88%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
2
Flintridge Preparatory School

Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.

Education
3
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
4
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
5
Spartanburg Day School

The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…

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Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
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Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
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Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
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School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
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Annie Wright Schools

Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.

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The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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The Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 69 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%66%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/87
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,478

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
66/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL — $350,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOL — $275,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $250,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $250,000 · Education+56 more — $4,964,484 · Education+56 moreMARYMOUNT SCHOOL OF NEW YORK — $250,000 · OtherMARYMOUNT SCHOOL OF NEW YORKTHE GREGORY SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherTHE GREGORY SCHOOLAIMS (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT — $200,000 · OtherAIMS (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENTFRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORATION — $154,089 · OtherSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT — $150,000 · OtherMARET SCHOOL — $138,046 · Other+35 more — $2,585,155 · Other+35 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTH…NATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$6,839,484Other$3,727,290Philanthropy$2,000,000Arts & Culture$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL — $350,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL — $275,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL — $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREGORY SCHOOL — $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL — $185,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $182,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $170,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $150,511 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGASTON DAY SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOLS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDARROW SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLycee Francais de Chicago Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLYCEE FRANCAIS DE SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMORGAN PARK ACADEMY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLONG TRAIL SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWELLINGTON SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOLEBURY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way WorldwideThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Ibm International Fou…Fidelity FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The Northrop Grumman …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Malone Family Fou…The Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …
United Way WorldwideVA27.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Malone Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Sharon Academy Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
  • Long Trail School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009?

Find your warmest path to The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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