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The Ford Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$845M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4,007
Grants FY2024still arriving
51
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$1.1BPhilanthropy$759MArts & Culture$700MInternational$557MCommunity Improvement$408MPublic Benefit$385MEnvironment$286MEducation$259MOther$0
02FY2024 · 4007 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k843 grants · $1.2M
  • $10k–50k225 grants · $5.8M
  • $50k–250k1867 grants · $231M
  • $250k+1072 grants · $607M
$100,000
Median grant
51
States reached
$17.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$15,000,000
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC$12,744,000
FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE$8,333,333
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$5,000,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$3,400,000
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE$3,250,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$3,200,000
EQUALITY FUND$3,000,000
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC$3,000,000
ME TOO INTERNATIONAL INC$2,515,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$2,500,000
MS TRAINING CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION$2,500,000
MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$2,370,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$2,300,000
UPTURN INC$2,300,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 75% of grant dollars ($4.2B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($1.4B) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $162.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RE Power Fund: $1.3M → 11%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $1.5M → 13%Family Values at Work A Multi State Consortium In: $4.9M → 17%FREEDOM READS INC: $1.0M → 12%STATE POWER FUND: $900k → 12%Family Values at Work A Multi State Consortium In: $4.0M → 17%STATE POWER FUND: $900k → 12%Family Values at Work A Multi State Consortium inc: $3.5M → 17%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $2.5M → 17%Family Values at Work A MultiState Consortium Inc: $2.4M → 17%Family Values at Work A Multi State Consortium Inc: $2.3M → 17%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $1.0M → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 17%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $1.0M → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS INC: $850k → 14%immigrant Legal Resource Center: $4.8M → 10%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $1.1M → 20%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $1.2M → 10%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $1.0M → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $800k → 20%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $1.1M → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $1.0M → 21%TIDES CENTER: $5.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.5M → 10%Tides Center: $1.2M → 10%Tides Center: $1.0M → 10%Tides Center: $1.0M → 10%Tides Center: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%Tides Center: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $800k → 10%National Urban League Inc: $1.0M → 17%Blue Meridian Partners Inc: $19.2M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $18.7M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $17.1M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $16.9M → 17%The Opportunity Institute: $1.0M → 10%Blue Meridian Partners Inc: $800k → 17%Living Cities Inc The National Community Develop: $1.0M → 17%Living Cities Inc The National Community Develop: $1.0M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3.5M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $12.7M → 17%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC: $1.0M → 17%VOW FOR GIRLS INC: $800k → 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

AK
ME
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CA
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KY
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MD
DE
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NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($1.4B)

95 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$139M · 423 grants
South Africa$136M · 674 grants
Brazil$133M · 877 grants
Indonesia$99M · 476 grants
India$81M · 608 grants
Colombia$74M · 341 grants
Nigeria$72M · 533 grants
Kenya$67M · 494 grants
Mexico$62M · 480 grants
China$57M · 281 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The Ford Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ford Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 29% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3B · 1804 repeat orgs$111M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

1804 repeat relationships: 1256 still active in FY2024, 548 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1804
113

Total granted

$4.3B
$90M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+14%

Still filing today

54%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BM
    BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $86M · revenue +362%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71M · revenue +191%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CW
    Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation
    one grant, 2017 · $3.4M
  • MB
    My Brother's Keeper Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $3.1M · 49% of their budget
  • TG
    The Greater Washington Educational Telecom
    one grant, 2017 · $2.1M
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
International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International
2
The Alliance for Media

The Alliance leads national programs in media arts, digital equity, and emerging technologies.

Arts & Culture
3
Inequality Media

Inequality media uses digital media to educate & engage the public on economic inequality & imbalance of power in america. we catalyze action by creating engaging shareable videos & posts released via trad'l/social media

Arts & Culture
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International
5
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
6
International Consortium of

Icij is a global investigative journalism network, an international newsroom and a builder of open-source tools that make sense of massive, complex datasets. our cross-border stories reveal broken systems and widespread corruption that…

International
7
Center for International

The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. working alongside…

International
8
United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science
9
National Bureau of Economic

The national bureau of economic research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. it is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic…

Social Science
10
National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement
11
Women Donors Network

Women donors network is a multigenerational, multiracial feminist network that channels collective power and resources in solidarity with movements to protect and advance gender, racial, economic, and climate justice toward our vision of…

Philanthropy
12
Pro Publica Inc

To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. [see continuation on schedule o] by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Government Partnership Secretariat; the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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

1085 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1085 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.

279
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
325
Early backer (in before they grew)
1068/1085
Grantees still filing
777/1085
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VENTURE FUND: $148,758,641 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $85,557,810 · OtherBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INCNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $64,057,325 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES+87 more: $854,408,875 · Other+87 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $135,032,900 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER P…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $33,720,003 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated C…TIDES FOUNDATION: $14,129,225 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $12,188,750 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $11,790,977 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $11,375,500 · Philanthropy+14 more: $79,346,031 · Philanthropy+14 moreNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $26,889,186 · Civil RightsNational Dom…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $23,742,600 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $21,318,700 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMM…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $18,955,189 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL …COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $17,546,905 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHA…UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $16,128,500 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DR…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,646,800 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $10,949,000 · Civil Rights+20 more: $135,508,893 · Civil Rights+20 moreFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $66,666,664 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $21,406,750 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR…POWERSWITCH ACTION: $19,318,621 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITC…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $19,063,250 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE…PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $17,308,041 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S A…POLICYLINK: $13,985,158 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $13,101,200 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN A…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $11,237,500 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $9,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $8,245,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $44,015,545 · Community Improvement+7 moreBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $51,183,833 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS …ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $16,448,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED ME…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $13,844,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONI…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,550,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER W…FREE PRESS: $11,125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC: $10,756,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY FORD ESTATE: $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $8,240,775 · Arts & CultureARRAY ALLIANCE INC: $7,511,250 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $7,502,930 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $61,522,907 · Arts & Culture+11 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc: $71,297,361 · Public BenefitNEO Phila…Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: $28,290,000 · Public BenefitCenter on…CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $28,225,514 · Public BenefitCENTER FO…THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,729,583 · Public BenefitTHE LEADE…DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $19,976,282 · Public BenefitDEMOS A N…PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $11,774,125 · Public BenefitPUBLIC PO…B LAB COMPANY: $10,000,000 · Public BenefitAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $8,035,121 · Public Benefit+1 more: $6,777,500 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $49,564,289 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $19,650,287 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $16,796,836 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $16,665,946 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $14,841,650 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP: $9,500,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $9,151,601 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $9,000,000 · InternationalDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $7,150,303 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM: $6,914,750 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $6,370,000 · International+4 more: $21,012,517 · International
Other$1,152,782,651Philanthropy$297,583,386Civil Rights$284,685,773Community Improvement$243,347,729Arts & Culture$209,685,695Public Benefit$205,105,486International$186,618,179

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $148,758,641 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $135,032,900 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $85,557,810 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $71,297,361 over 8y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $66,666,664 over 8y, 50% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $64,057,325 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $51,183,833 over 8y, 31% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $49,564,289 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $36,685,650 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $33,720,003 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $28,290,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $28,225,514 over 8y, 18% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $26,990,580 over 8y, 13% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $26,889,186 over 8y, 22% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $25,162,435 over 8y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $23,742,600 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $21,903,000 over 8y, 80% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $21,406,750 over 8y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $21,318,700 over 8y, 35% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,729,583 over 8y, 24% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $19,976,282 over 8y, 70% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $19,650,287 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: $19,517,083 over 8y, 30% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $19,318,621 over 8y, 42% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $19,063,250 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $18,955,189 over 8y, 16% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $17,546,905 over 8y, 45% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $17,473,500 over 8y, 49% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $17,308,041 over 8y, 40% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $16,995,461 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $16,796,836 over 8y, 18% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $16,665,946 over 7y, 35% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $16,448,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $16,128,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $16,104,100 over 8y, 26% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $15,709,830 over 8y, 44% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $15,515,510 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $14,841,650 over 6y, 12% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $14,140,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $14,129,225 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $14,115,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $13,985,158 over 8y, 11% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $13,844,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $13,715,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,646,800 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $13,101,200 over 8y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,035,207 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $12,835,450 over 7y, 14% 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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds POWERSWITCH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗

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.

Foundation to Promote…Wellspring Philanthro…Rockefeller Brothers …Democracy Fund IncThe Scherman Foundati…Surdna Foundation IncFoundation for a Just…Freedom Together Foun…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…Booth Ferris Foundati…New York Women's Foun…The Andrew W Mellon F…
Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY117.4× affinity333 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Foundation for a Just Society · Freedom Together Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon 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 Ford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home