Oregon · Nonprofit
The Ford Family Foundation
The Ford Family Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Kiawanda Community Center ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What The Ford Family Foundation does
Programs
The Foundation administers four scholarship programs, by which it provides financial and a suite of additional supports to students pursuing postsecondary education. Programs target single parents (Ford Opportunity), high-performing community college students preparing to transfer to a 4-year institution (Ford Transfer), and graduating high school seniors who otherwise would find it impossible, or at least very difficult, to obtain a college degree (Ford Scholars) in Oregon and Siskiyou County, California, as well as dependents of Roseburg Forest Products employees throughout the country (Ford Sons & Daughters). In addition to financial assistance, the Foundation supports student through 5 dedicated FTE providing licensed counseling services, conferences and events, and professional and personal development opportunities. Additional details regarding eligibility criteria, award determination, and activities may be found at www.tfff.org.
$1,058,351 spentSelectBooks delivers free books upon request to any resident of Oregon and Siskiyou County, California to foster a culture of learning and improving life for rural children and families. The Ford Family Foundation staff curate the SelectBooks collection with the goal of providing up-to-date resources about issues and topics of interest in rural communities. Books selected generally align with the values of The Ford Family Foundation and help readers explore current conversations, issues and ideas circulating in our region's rural communities.
$210,346 spentIn partnership with Oregon State University Extension Service, The Ford Family Foundation produces Oregon by the Numbers: Key Measures for Oregon and its Counties. This report, published annually and printed biannually, assembles and displays a suite of community measures in an easy-to-digest format including charts and infographics. It features compact county portraits for all 36 Oregon counties as well as corresponding measure profiles, with rankings whenever possible. Measures include demographics, community, education, the economy, health and infrastructure. The printed report is provided for free to all Oregon lawmakers and to local community and government leaders, and to all Oregon residents via the Foundation's free Select Books program and online. The Foundation dedicates an estimated 0.25 FTE to the publication. The Foundation also funds on-call support for rural communities to access the data engine behind the report, Rural Communities Explorer via OSU's Extension Service.
$160,141 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1B to $1.2B (+16%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Ford Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Ford Family Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of The Ford Family Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Ford Family Foundation's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
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.
Against its field
The Ford Family Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like The Ford Family 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 Oregon
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 The Ford Family Foundation: 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 The Ford Family Foundation?
- The Ford Family Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Kiawanda Community Center ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Ford Family Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to The Ford Family Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The Ford Family Foundation?
- Kiawanda Community Center is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Ford Family Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 1 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