Michigan · Nonprofit
EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE
EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,790 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $587k
- Net assets
- $274M
What Edsel & Eleanor Ford House does
Programs
Care, restoration, and maintenance of the historic estate, including the house, furnishings, and grounds, enabling the estate to be open to the public, school/youth groups, and other special groups for tours and education (approx. 137,436 onsite visitors). Acquisition of assets used in the care and restoration of the estate/collection.
$7,152,106 spentYouth and adult programming used to educate the general public about the lives & times of the ford family, while living at the estate. Approximately 31,993 visitors.
$2,853,840 spentSpecial functions at the estate to benefit non profit organizations, the community and other special groups. Approximately 16,511 visitors.
$2,168,684 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $328M to $280M (−15%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mark J Heppner
President & CEO
Board chair
Lynn F Alandt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $56k → $75k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE raised.
From the IRS filings of EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 83% · 2019 59% · 2020 80% · 2021 66% · 2022 70% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$7.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE?
- EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,790 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $586,790 in grants to EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE?
- FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing