Ford Foundation

One of the largest foundations in the world, now organized entirely around a single conviction, that inequality is the defining challenge of our time and worth confronting on every continent.

Financial profile

Ford Foundation · EIN 13-1684331 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$502,432,276$851,842,660$14,337,694,920Dec 2023
FY2022$925,622,223$972,621,627$13,931,757,624Dec 2022
FY2021$948,070,079$1,340,846,631$17,448,736,900Dec 2021
FY2020$652,006,894$1,114,835,564$15,766,743,618Dec 2020
FY2019$460,414,672$665,707,679$13,259,574,015Dec 2019
FY2015$486,701,562$756,882,561$11,724,101,520Dec 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Ford Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs FF

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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The outside view

One of the largest foundations in the world, now organized entirely around a single conviction, that inequality is the defining challenge of our time and worth confronting on every continent.

  • Authority
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Movement

Gathered around a cause, and built to move.

The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.

Also reads toward The Citadel and The Frontier.

Strengths

→Real influence on the wider field.
→Members are motivated by a clear why.
→Quick to rally around what matters now.

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