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The Ford Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,992
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$523k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$126MPhilanthropy$26MHuman Services$26MCommunity Improvement$23MHealth$17MCrime & Legal$13MArts & Culture$11MYouth Development$8.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1992 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k977 grants · $4.6M
  • $10k–50k850 grants · $16M
  • $50k–250k150 grants · $13M
  • $250k+15 grants · $4.4M
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tides Center$523,000
Nonprofit Association of Oregon$437,000
Oregon CASA Network$350,000
Hearts With A Mission$300,000
Western Oregon University Development Foundation$275,000
Oregon Community Foundation$275,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board$250,000
Warm Springs Community Action Team$250,000
North Bend Public Library Foundation$250,000
Central Oregon Community College Foundation$250,000
Foundations for A Better Oregon$250,000
Glide Revitalization$250,000
Siskiyou County Job Council$250,000
The Campbell Institute$250,000
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 (FY17–24, $18.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tides Center: $523k → 10%Tides Center: $370k → 10%Juliette's House: $100k → 11%Building Healthy Families: $128k → 12%ABC House Inc: $400k → 13%Baker Relief Nursery: $125k → 16%Euvalcree: $120k → 20%Building Healthy Families: $125k → 12%ABC House: $190k → 13%Baker Relief Nursery: $100k → 16%Euvalcree: $100k → 20%Safe Families for Children Alliance: $150k → 14%Building Healthy Families: $122k → 12%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $138k → 16%Young Mens Christian Association of Douglas County: $300k → 17%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $120k → 16%Oregon CASA Network: $368k → 10%Oregon CASA Network: $368k → 10%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $118k → 16%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $118k → 16%Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $150k → 11%Clackamas Women's Services: $180k → 8%Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $150k → 11%Oregon Infant Mental Health Association: $120k → 15%Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $130k → 11%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $112k → 16%Oregon Infant Mental Health Association: $118k → 15%Family Building Blocks: $150k → 14%Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries: $115k → 14%Oregon Casa Network: $400k → 14%Vida McKenzie Community Center: $250k → 15%Siskiyou Family YMCA Inc: $400k → 16%Jacksonville Community Center: $150k → 13%Oregon Casa Network: $375k → 14%Siskiyou Family YMCA Inc: $140k → 16%Hearts With A Mission: $350k → 13%Hearts With A Mission: $300k → 13%Hearts With A Mission: $300k → 13%Hearts With A Mission: $155k → 13%United Community Action Network: $165k → 17%Battered Persons Advocacy Inc: $155k → 17%Battered Persons Advocacy Inc: $155k → 17%Battered Persons Advocacy Inc: $150k → 17%Battered Persons Advocacy Inc: $138k → 17%Peace at Home Advocacy Center: $120k → 17%Family Development Center: $115k → 17%Oregon CASA Network: $350k → 12%Riddle Roots Community Projects: $500k → 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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RI
CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
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AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Ford Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ford Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205M · 1779 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

1779 repeat relationships: 791 still active in FY2024, 988 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1779
176

Total granted

$205M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-27%

Still filing today

23%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +114% · 69% of their budget
  • Nonprofit Association of Oregon
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +9% · 30% of their budget
  • OC
    OREGON CASA NETWORK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +913% · 88% of their budget

Funded once

  • OR
    OREGON RURAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -100% · 69% of their budget
  • CO
    CAUSA OF OREGON
    one grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue -100%
  • TS
    The Salvation Army Cascade Division
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
2
Earth Day Oregon
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3
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
4
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
5
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
6
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
7
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
8
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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9
Collaborative Economic Development

To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon

Employment
10
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
11
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
12
Central Oregon Center for the Arts

The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restore Oregon Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

505 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. 505 of the 2,000 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.

86
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
199
Early backer (in before they grew)
485/505
Grantees still filing
344/505
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $4,213,300 · OtherRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INCDouglas Education Service District: $3,746,923 · OtherDouglas Education Service DistrictUniversity of Oregon: $3,300,100 · OtherUniversity of OregonTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $2,520,300 · Other+101 more: $44,912,235 · Other+101 moreTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,454,615 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUN…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: $762,038 · Philanthropy+6 more: $2,756,890 · Philanthropy+6 moreOREGON CASA NETWORK: $2,718,750 · Human ServicesOREGON CASA NETW…TIDES CENTER: $1,888,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $1,610,203 · Human ServicesSISKIYOU FAMILY …HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $1,240,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS WITH A MI…ABC HOUSE INC: $1,204,800 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE INCHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,151,837 · Human ServicesHAPPY CAMP COMMU…PEACE AT HOME ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $979,971 · Human ServicesJULIETTE'S HOUSE: $838,953 · Human ServicesFAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $788,070 · Human ServicesBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: $730,560 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSE: $670,000 · Human Services+15 more: $5,672,143 · Human Services+15 moreOregon State University Foundation: $2,568,538 · EducationOregon State…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,956,534 · EducationOREGON HEALT…FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON: $1,937,000 · EducationFOUNDATIONS …UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,278,606 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…PHOENIX SCHOOL OF ROSEBURG: $1,056,100 · EducationPHOENIX SCHO…GREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $783,500 · EducationCOLLEGE OPTIONS INC: $705,000 · Education+15 more: $4,492,590 · Education+15 moreNonprofit Association of Oregon: $3,049,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CONTINGENT: $770,000 · Community ImprovementCascade Pacific RC&D Area: $706,258 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS VALLEY 2010 COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM: $634,650 · Community ImprovementCHILOQUIN VISIONS IN PROGRESS: $456,768 · Community ImprovementJEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $423,550 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS4COMMUNITY: $399,700 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST: $353,734 · Community Improvement+9 more: $2,389,155 · Community ImprovementTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $1,207,100 · Crime & LegalChildrens Center: $804,800 · Crime & LegalOREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS: $755,000 · Crime & LegalKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $594,446 · Crime & LegalPrevent Child Abuse Oregon: $541,000 · Crime & LegalATTORNEY GENERAL'S SEXUAL ASSAULT TASK FORCE: $373,000 · Crime & LegalFamilias en Accion: $357,500 · Crime & LegalCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM: $324,940 · Crime & LegalTodos Juntos Inc: $295,000 · Crime & LegalCURRY CHILD ABUSE INTERVENTION CENTER DBA WALLYS HOUSE: $291,700 · Crime & LegalPARENTING NOW: $250,400 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $410,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC: $395,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS CLUB OF HARNEY COUNTY: $384,800 · Youth DevelopmentB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION: $370,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPHELIA'S PLACE: $315,100 · Youth DevelopmentTiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $284,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON: $261,700 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASLOW PROJECT: $225,000 · Youth Development
Other$58,692,858Philanthropy$20,973,543Human Services$19,493,287Education$14,777,868Community Improvement$10,182,815Crime & Legal$5,794,886Youth Development$3,121,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,454,615 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $4,213,300 over 8y, 69% of budgetNonprofit Association of Oregon: $3,049,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetOREGON CASA NETWORK: $2,718,750 over 7y, 88% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $2,568,538 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $2,520,300 over 8y, 32% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,956,534 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON: $1,937,000 over 7y, 84% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,888,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $1,610,203 over 8y, 34% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,278,606 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,255,463 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHEARTS WITH A MISSION: $1,240,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $1,207,100 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetABC HOUSE INC: $1,204,800 over 8y, 17% of budgetHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,151,837 over 8y, 41% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION INC: $1,082,610 over 8y, 14% of budgetPHOENIX SCHOOL OF ROSEBURG: $1,056,100 over 8y, 12% of budgetPEACE AT HOME ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $979,971 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD: $916,800 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetJULIETTE'S HOUSE: $838,953 over 8y, 16% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $831,761 over 7y, 14% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $805,514 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetChildrens Center: $804,800 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetFAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $788,070 over 8y, 11% of budgetGREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $783,500 over 7y, 79% of budgetTHE CONTINGENT: $770,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: $762,038 over 6y, 27% of budgetOREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS: $755,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: $730,560 over 8y, 12% of budgetSiskiyou County Job Council: $713,500 over 6y, 78% of budgetCascade Pacific RC&D Area: $706,258 over 5y, 16% of budgetCOLLEGE OPTIONS INC: $705,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $687,484 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetOREGON COAST COMMUNITY ACTION: $687,026 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC: $684,037 over 6y, 15% of budgetHIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP: $677,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE: $670,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $669,700 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE UMPQUA VALLEY INC: $662,530 over 8y, 10% of budgetNORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $660,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY 2010 COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM: $634,650 over 8y, 19% of budgetGLIDE REVITALIZATION: $608,900 over 6y, 28% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $594,446 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS FOR KIDS: $562,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $559,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetRIDDLE ROOTS COMMUNITY PROJECTS: $550,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetOREGON INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC: $548,000 over 7y, 51% 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.

  • Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Nonprofit Association of Oregon ↗
  • Who funds OREGON CASA NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS WITH A MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX SCHOOL OF ROSEBURG ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS ↗
  • Who funds PEACE AT HOME ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ↗
  • Who funds JULIETTE'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Center ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON ↗
  • Who funds OREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS ↗

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.

The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationThe Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Braemar Charitable Tr…Meyer Memorial TrustChambers Family Found…Marie Lamfrom Charita…James F & Marion L Mi…The Reser Family Foun…The Carpenter Foundat…Juan Young Trust
The Roundhouse FoundationOR258.4× affinity419 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Chambers Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Juan Young Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 320%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • High Desert Partnership: 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Casa Network: 100% of income from government
  • Northeast Oregon Economic Development District: 100% of income from government
  • Wallowa Resources Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Child and Family Council Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Rogue Farm Corps: 91% of income from government
  • Pioneer Relief Nursery Pioneer Relief Nursery: 87% of income from government
  • Glide Revitalization: 87% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Community Action: 85% of income from government
  • United Community Action Network: 82% of income from government
  • Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force: 79% of income from government
  • Columbia Pacific Economic Developme: 77% of income from government
  • Klamath & Lake Community Action Services: 77% of income from government
  • Oregon Infant Mental Health Assoc: 74% of income from government
  • Family Development Center: 71% of income from government
  • Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board: 70% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Oregon Trio Association: 66% of income from government
  • Todos Juntos Inc: 64% of income from government
  • South Lane Family Nursery Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Oregon Family Support Network Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Hearts With a Mission: 51% of income from government
  • Baker Relief Nursery Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
  • Education Northwest: 44% of income from government
  • Strengthening Rural Families: 43% of income from government
  • Community Lendingworks: 43% of income from government
  • Raices de Bienestar: 41% of income from government
  • Building Healthy Families: 41% of income from government
  • Phoenix School of Roseburg: 41% of income from government
  • South Coast Business Employment Corporation: 41% of income from government
  • Family Faith and Relationship Advocates: 40% of income from government
  • The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
  • Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • United Way of Lane County: 31% of income from government
  • Health Care Coalition of Southern Oregon Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Child Abuse Solutions: 30% of income from government
  • Young Mens Christian Association of Klamath County: 29% of income from government
  • Antfarm Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Warm Springs Community Action Team: 28% of income from government
  • Greater Applegate Community Development: 26% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • College Dreams Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Maslow Project: 22% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
  • Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
  • Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network: 20% of income from government
  • Thrive Umpqua: 19% of income from government
  • Euvalcree: 18% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children- Central Oregon: 16% of income from government
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries: 16% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Chiloquin Visions in Progress: 15% of income from government
  • Ccd Business Development Corporation: 14% of income from government
  • Umpqua Community Development Corp: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Southwestern Oregon: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Nami Oregon: 10% of income from government
  • Curry Child Abuse Intervention Center Dba Wallys House: 9% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Mosaic Community Health: 8% of income from government
  • Familias en Accion: 8% of income from government
  • Neighbors for Kids: 8% of income from government
  • La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc: 7% of income from government
  • South Coast Development Council: 7% of income from government
  • Prevent Child Abuse Oregon: 7% of income from government
  • Josephy Center for Arts and Culture: 7% of income from government
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association: 7% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Association of Oregon: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest: 5% of income from government
  • Playa: 5% of income from government
  • The Contingent: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • Mckenzie Valley Ltrg of Lane County: 3% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Pacific University: 2% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Umpqua Valley Arts Association: 1% of income from government
  • Parenting Now: 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Douglas County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Caldera: 1% of income from government
  • Western Oregon University Development Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Food Roots: 0% of income from government
  • Casa of Jackson County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Klamath Community College Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Linn-Benton Community College Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
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32get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
22rely on government for over half their income
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 Ford Family 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 2000 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.

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