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The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$70,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 23
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$484k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$70k100%
FY20241$62k0%
FY20231$73k100%
FY20221$68k100%
FY202123$53kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$25kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$5kEmployment$700Health$300Human Services$225Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
NJ
VA
MD
NC
OK
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stevenson University$18,10010%
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,20010%
The Odyssey School Inc$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Washington and Lee University$1,00010%
National Association of Government Employees$7001n/a
Fuel Fund of Maryland Inc$10010%
Calvert School Incorporated$10010%
Paul's Place Inc$10010%
Nch Healthcare System Inc$10010%
The Salvation Army$1001n/a
Annapolis Yacht Club Foundation Inc$501n/a
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$5010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStevenson University: $18,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Odyssey School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuel Fund of Maryland Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalvert School Incorporated: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul's Place Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNch Healthcare System Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

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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.

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About The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc give?
The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (8%), Philanthropy (3%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Stevenson University ($18k), The United Way of Central Maryland Inc ($10k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($5k).
Does The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc based?
The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 26 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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