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The Ford Foundation

Form 990s | Financials | Vendors | Personnel | Peers

The Ford Foundation is a private foundation based in New York, NY that was founded in 1960. As of 2018 they had $757 million in revenue and $13 billion in assets.

To encourage initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located, to promote collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors.

EIN:

13-1684331

City:

New York

State:

New York

Metro:

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

Website:

fordfoundation.org

Phone:

212-573-5000

Twitter:

@fordfoundation

Founded:

1960

Type:

501(c)(3)

NTEE:

T20: Private foundations

Revenue:

$757,669,703

Assets:

$13,053,278,556

Fiscal year end:

December

Revenue trends:

Asset trends:

Form 990s for The Ford Foundation

Fiscal year ending	Date received by IRS	Form	PDF link
2018-12	Feb 19, 2020	990PF	View PDF
2017-12	Feb 21, 2019	990PF	View PDF
2016-12	Mar 14, 2018	990PF	View PDF
2015-12	Mar 3, 2017	990PF	View PDF
2014-12	Jan 25, 2016	990PF	View PDF
...and four more Form 990 PDFs

Financials for The Ford Foundation

Field	2017	2016	% Change
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$0	$0
Investment income and dividends	$65,215,340	$67,347,306	-3.2%
Net rental income	$0	$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets	$690,880,798	$148,501,530	365.2%
Gross sales of inventory	$0	$0
Miscellaneous revenues	$1,573,565	$1,789,469	-12.1%
Total revenues	$757,669,703	$217,638,305	248.1%

Field	2017	2016	% Change
Compensation of current officers, etc.	$6,851,255	$6,527,593	5.0%
Non-officer salaries and wages	$52,459,800	$48,268,179	8.7%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions	$25,508,669	$22,714,174	12.3%
Legal fees	$3,802,041	$3,694,682	2.9%
Accounting fees	$1,210,438	$1,011,778	19.6%
Other fee-for-service	$34,859,718	$28,316,113	23.1%
Interest	$7,292,277	$0	999%
Depreciation, amortization, etc.	$8,202,751	$8,746,563	-6.2%
Occupancy	$12,034,555	$11,919,505	1.0%
Travel	$7,832,382	$7,846,334	-0.2%
Office expenses
Grants to all govts., orgs., and individuals	$663,758,877	$535,277,886	24.0%
All other expenses	$14,599,197	$14,352,596	1.7%
Total expenses	$839,710,881	$690,098,468	21.7%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$62,484,793	$136,621,534	-54.3%
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$174,809,732	$172,857,320	1.1%
Accounts receivable	$0	$5,253,285	-100%
Pledges and grants receivable	$0	$5,253,285	-100%
Loans receivable from officers, directors, etc.	$0	$0
Notes and loans receivable	$367,169	$0	999%
Inventories for use	$0	$0
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$4,931,963	$5,557,831	-11.3%
Investments in government obligations	$955,651,521	$815,614,680	17.2%
Investments in corporate stock	$157,698,110	$188,426,924	-16.3%
Investments in corporate bonds	$150,595,745	$148,632,475	1.3%
Investments in land, buildings, and equipment	$0	$0
Investments in mortgage loans	$0	$0
Other types of investments	$11,151,320,053	$11,942,090,515	-6.6%
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$228,530,255	$149,558,034	52.8%
Other assets	$166,889,215	$144,576,879	15.4%
Total assets	$13,053,278,556	$13,709,189,477	-4.8%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$80,411,888	$83,523,077	-3.7%
Grants payable	$457,416,737	$473,703,996	-3.4%
Deferred revenue	$0	$0
Loans payable to officers and disqualified persons	$0	$0
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties	$271,017,267	$270,947,697	0.0%
Other liabilities	$67,649,763	$69,578,026	-2.8%
Total liabilities	$876,495,655	$897,752,796	-2.4%

Field	2017	2016	% Change
Unrestricted net assets	$12,811,436,681	$11,838,121,068	8.2%
Temporarily restricted net assets	$0	$0
Permanently restricted net assets	$0	$0

Vendors for The Ford Foundation

Vendor	Services	Amount paid	Date
CiviCRM	CRM software		2020-06-15
█████████	Marketing software		2020-06-15
██████ ███	Software		2019-10-03
██████████████████████ ███	Tax accounting		2018-11-07
███████ ████████████ ██████ ███ ████████	Architecture Service	$4,602,955	2017-12-01
██████ ███ ███████	Re Development Management	$802,629	2017-12-01
██████ ███ ██████	Legal Services	$623,528	2017-12-01
████████ ███████	It Consulting	$3,030,921	2017-12-01
...and 13 more vendors

Personnel at The Ford Foundation

Name	Title	Compensation	Most recent data
Darren Walker	President , Ford Foundation	$860,052	May 20, 2020
John W. Bernstein	Vice President , Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer	$514,396	July 13, 2019
████ █████████	Vice President and Chief Investment Officer	$2.3 million	May 20, 2020
████████ ███████	Vice President Talent and Human Resources	$399,890	Jan. 10, 2019
██████ ██████████	Executive Vice President for Program	$461,329	May 20, 2020
███████ ██ ████████	Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel	-	Jan. 10, 2019
███████ ██████	Director Public Inv.	$1.0 million	Dec. 31, 2017
██████ █████	Director Private Eq.	$1.1 million	Dec. 31, 2017
███████ █████████	Director Hedge Funds	$1.0 million	Dec. 31, 2017
██████ ██████	Manager Investment Ops.	$420,598	Dec. 31, 2017
...and five more key personnel

Peer private foundations

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	The Grace and Mercy Foundation	501(c)(3)	$467 million	New York, NY
2	Rockefeller Foundation	501(c)(3)	$429 million	New York, NY
3	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	501(c)(3)	$231 million	Flint, MI
4	The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust	501(c)(3)	$191 million	New York, NY
5	Simons Foundation	501(c)(3)	$441 million	New York, NY
6	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation	501(c)(3)	$483 million	New York, NY
7	Carnegie Corporation of New York	501(c)(3)	$231 million	New York, NY
8	Kresge Foundation	501(c)(3)	$275 million	Troy, MI
9	William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	501(c)(3)	$609 million	Menlo Park, CA
10	The Schmidt Family Foundation (TSFF)	501(c)(3)	$613 million	Palo Alto, CA
11	Rippleworks	501(c)(3)	$296 million	Redwood City, CA
12	Duke Endowment	501(c)(3)	$265 million	Charlotte, NC
13	Wellcome Trust	501(c)(3)	$2.6 billion	United Kingdom,
14	David and Lucile Packard Foundation	501(c)(3)	$355 million	Los Altos, CA
15	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	501(c)(3)	$548 million	Princeton, NJ
16	Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust	501(c)(3)	$343 million	West Palm Beach, FL
17	Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF)	501(c)(3)	$216 million	Broomfield, CO
18	Laura and John Arnold Foundation	501(c)(3)	$333 million	Houston, TX
19	John Templeton Foundation	501(c)(3)	$232 million	West Conshohocken, PA
20	W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)	501(c)(3)	$386 million	Battle Creek, MI
21	Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation	501(c)(3)	$530 million	Palo Alto, CA
22	New York-Presbyterian Fund	501(c)(3)	$387 million	New York, NY
23	Orbis International	501(c)(3)	$245 million	New York, NY
24	New York Community Trust	501(c)(3)	$244 million	New York, NY
25	George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF)	501(c)(3)	$275 million	Tulsa, OK

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