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The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% 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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$484k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 5$70,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS: $100 → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $50 → 11%RAMS CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $100 → 14%MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $50 → 12%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%SHERWOOD FOREST CLUB: $1k → 6%GILCHRIST CENTER: $75 → 11%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $10k → 19%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $100 → 17%ANNAPOLIS YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $50 → 6%BLAKEHURST SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 11%FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND: $100 → 19%BLAKEHURST EMPLOYEE GIFT FUND: $700 → 11%PAUL'S PLACE: $100 → 19%STEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%CALVERT SCHOOL: $100 → 19%ODYSSEY SCHOOL: $5k → 11%SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 6: $73k → 19%SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 5: $70k → 19%SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 6: $62k → 19%SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 8: $68k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH: $100 → 19%BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR ARTS FND: $50 → 19%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

NY
IA
NJ
VA
MD
NC
OK
GA
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 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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University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
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University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nch Healthcare System Inc; the most unlike its peers is Annapolis Yacht Club Foundation Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 6: $135,000 · OtherSEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 6SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 5: $70,000 · OtherSEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 5SEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 8: $68,000 · OtherSEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULE 8+13 more: $8,375 · OtherSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $18,100 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,200 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $100 · HealthMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $50 · HealthFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$281,375Education$24,200Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$5,200International$5,000Health$150Housing & Shelter$100

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 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
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.

T Rowe Price Program …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harry M Ford Jr & Josephine M Ford Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 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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