Michigan · Nonprofit
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,092,443 to it, the largest being THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC ($3,917,829). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation does
Mission
The gerald r. Ford presidential foundation fosters increased awareness of the life, career, values, and legacy of america's 38th president. It does so through activities designed to promote the high ideals of integrity, honesty, and candor that defined president ford's extraordinary career of public service. The foundation promotes the ideals, values, commitment to public service, and historical legacy of president gerald r. Ford and further promotes greater civic engagement and recognition of integrity wherever it exists in the public arena. It supports permanent and changing exhibits designed to promote historical literacy; conferences; educational outreach and other programs, both scholarly and popular, at the gerald r. Ford presidential library and museum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Activities supported by the foundation include smithsonian quality feature exhibits, noted speakers, and various community activities. This includes programs celebrating the 50th anniversary of the presidency with - the day that rocked america and began a new era, doris kearns goodwin - navigating the current political crisis, trusted elections conference w/ mike ford and jason carter. Landmark first ladies conference w/ flare and american university honoring betty ford, america's first ladies luncheon w/ keynote speaker first lady jill biden.
$544,517 spent54% of program spendingFoundation support of the gerald r. Ford presidential library and presidential museum in 2024 included the payments for the 50th anniversary presidency exhibit - ford at 50 decisions that defined a presidency and the betty blip: betty ford's battle against breast cancer.
$416,824 spent41% of program spendingThe foundation supports research and education through programs including journalism prizes, research grants, and internships. Journalism prizes recognize reportorial excellence and the fostering of better public understanding of the presidency and national defense. Two $5,000 prizes were awarded in 2024. Research grants support research in the holdings of the ford presidential library. Fifteen grants totaling $21,400.00 were awarded in 2024. Museum internships offer college students practical experience during 240 hours of work at the ford presidential museum and include a $1,000 stipend upon completion. Three internships were granted in 2024 totaling $3,000.00. The foundation continues its civic initiative programs including, devos learning center and the ford leadership forum.
$44,140 spentof which $34,400 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,005,481.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $46M to $57M (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
85% of GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
Gleaves Whitney
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Jandernoa
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $142k → $523k.
7 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $127k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Washtenaw County). These are real filings, and they are not money GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 35% · 2018 67% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 45% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
97% of GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $623k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION?
- GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,092,443 to it, the largest being THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC ($3,917,829). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $7,092,443 in grants to GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION?
- THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,917,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing