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The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 at a glance

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The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.7MPhilanthropy$2.0MCommunity Improvement$320kCivil Rights$200kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$150kScience & Tech$87kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$1,300,000
MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE$250,000
WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL$156,000
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS EXPERIENTIAL$100,000
PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE$100,000
SANDIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL$100,000
THE BOLLES SCHOOL$100,000
THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL$100,000
PENNINGTON SCHOOL$100,000
CHURCH SCHOOLS IN THE DIOCESE OF$100,000
CAPE COD ACADEMY$100,000
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL$100,000
LAKESIDE SCHOOL$100,000
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL$99,489
KINKAID SCHOOL$76,250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The Gregory School: $200k → 15%CAPE COD ACADEMY: $100k → 8%Deerfield Academy: $120k → 14%Solebury School: $100k → 6%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1.3M → 7%WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $156k → 11%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%MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $250k → 9%TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL: $100k → 9%Darrow School: $100k → 11%Garden School: $100k → 13%Nichols School: $100k → 13%THE KLINGENSTEIN CENTER TEACHERS COLLEGE: $100k → 17%PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $100k → 20%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100k → 12%The New School: $100k → 14%NATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%THE BOLLES SCHOOL: $100k → 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%AIMS (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT: $200k → 6%WAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $133k → 7%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2.0M → 7%Marymount School of New York: $250k → 17%FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL: $120k → 7%IOLANI SCHOOL: $182k → 9%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
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

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VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 16 repeat orgs$9.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
89

Total granted

$2.9M
$8.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +8%
  • TS
    THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +34%
  • WP
    WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +53%
  • MS
    MARYMOUNT SCHOOL OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +17%
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.

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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
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
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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9
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
10
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
11
The Seven Hills School

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

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12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 126 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/96
Grantees still filing
66/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $350,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOL: $275,000 · Education+73 more: $7,218,338 · Education+73 moreMARYMOUNT SCHOOL OF NEW YORK: $250,000 · OtherTHE GREGORY SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $250,000 · OtherWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $231,000 · OtherAIMS (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT: $200,000 · Other+44 more: $3,517,590 · Other+44 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,300,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC …NATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$7,843,338Other$4,698,590Philanthropy$3,300,000Arts & Culture$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $350,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $275,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GREGORY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $231,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetNATIONAL BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pennington School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Browning School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELLINGTON SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMORGAN PARK ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGreensboro Independent School Corp: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLycee Francais de Chicago Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLONG TRAIL SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAPE COD ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBosque School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGASTON DAY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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

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 Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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