New York · Nonprofit
THE FORD FOUNDATION
THE FORD FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,022,469 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($5,581,725). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1B
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $14.9B
What The Ford Foundation does
Programs
The global fellowship program identifies and connects emerging leaders from across the globe who are advancing innovative ideas and solutions to combat inequity
$4,687,623 spentBuild program yields learning for grantees & grantmakers alike, in developing social justice orgs & networks fostering greater inst. Eff. To dismantle inequality
$2,782,321 spentFor projects that communicate the foundation's mission and programs including the foundation's website.
$2,297,882 spentArt for justice is focused on safely reducing the prison population, promoting justice reinvestment and creating art that changes narrative around mass incarceration
$1,820,765 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 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 2021 to 2022, from $20.0B to $16.4B (−18%).
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.
Board chair
Francisco G Cigarroa
Trustee & chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $125 → $1.4M.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE FORD 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE FORD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE FORD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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
0% of THE FORD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 17% 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
75% of THE FORD FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE FORD FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE FORD FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- NJ$33k
- FL$2k
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 THE FORD 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 New York
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 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 FOUNDATION?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,022,469 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($5,581,725). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FORD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $9,022,469 in grants to THE FORD FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORD FOUNDATION?
- NEO Philanthropy Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,581,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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