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The Ford Foundation

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.

Previous legal names or variations of their name include: Community Foundation For Northern Ireland.

EIN:

13-1684331

City:

New York

State:

New York

NTEE:

T20: Private foundations

Website:

fordfoundation.org

Type:

501(c)(3)

Revenue:

$757,669,703

Assets:

$13,709,189,477

Fiscal year end:

December

Founded:

1960

Revenue trends:

Asset trends:

Form 990s for The Ford Foundation

Fiscal year ending	Date received by IRS	Form	PDF link
2017-12	Feb 21, 2019	990PF	View PDF
2016-12	Mar 14, 2018	990PF	View PDF
2014-12	Jan 25, 2016	990PF	View PDF
2013-12	Dec 29, 2014	990PF	View PDF
2012-12	Nov 25, 2013	990PF	View PDF
...and one more Form 990 PDF

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	2017	2016	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$136,621,534	$5,953,059	2195.0%
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$172,857,320	$181,625,027	-4.8%
Accounts receivable	$5,253,285	$3,648,028	44.0%
Pledges and grants receivable	$5,253,285	$3,648,028	44.0%
Loans receivable from officers, directors, etc.	$0	$0
Notes and loans receivable	$0	$0
Inventories for use	$0	$0
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$5,557,831	$5,888,526	-5.6%
Investments in government obligations	$815,614,680	$789,182,027	3.3%
Investments in corporate stock	$188,426,924	$214,314,809	-12.1%
Investments in corporate bonds	$148,632,475	$83,732,198	77.5%
Investments in land, buildings, and equipment	$0	$0
Investments in mortgage loans	$0	$0
Other types of investments	$11,942,090,515	$10,862,722,903	9.9%
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$149,558,034	$59,910,706	149.6%
Other assets	$144,576,879	$157,781,010	-8.4%
Total assets	$13,709,189,477	$12,364,758,293	10.9%

Field	2017	2016	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$83,523,077	$69,363,733	20.4%
Grants payable	$473,703,996	$374,476,233	26.5%
Deferred revenue	$0	$0
Loans payable to officers and disqualified persons	$0	$0
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties	$270,947,697	$0	999%
Other liabilities	$69,578,026	$82,797,259	-16.0%
Total liabilities	$897,752,796	$526,637,225	70.5%

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

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Vendors for The Ford Foundation

Vendor	Services	Amount paid	Date
Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP	Tax accounting		2018-11-07
██████ ███	Software		2018-08-01
██████	Fundraising software		2018-08-01
███████ ███ ████	Fundraising software; Payment processing		2018-08-01
███████ ████████████ ██████ ███ ████████	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
John W. Bernstein	Vice President , Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer	$514,396	July 13, 2019
Eric Doppstadt	Vice President and Chief Investment Officer	$2.3 million	July 13, 2019
████████ ███████	Vice President Talent and Human Resources	$399,890	Jan. 10, 2019
██████ ██████████	Executive Vice President for Program	$461,329	July 13, 2019
██████ ██████	President	$860,052	July 13, 2019
███████ ██ ████████	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 six more key personnel

Peer private foundations

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	Rockefeller Foundation	501(c)(3)	$325 million	New York, NY
2	Carnegie Corporation of New York	501(c)(3)	$219 million	New York, NY
3	Grace and Mercy Foundation	501(c)(3)	$467 million	New York, NY
4	John Templeton Foundation	501(c)(3)	$248 million	West Conshohocken, PA
5	Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation	501(c)(3)	$451 million	Palo Alto, CA
6	Wellcome Trust	501(c)(3)	$3.4 billion	United Kingdom,
7	Allegheny Foundation	501(c)(3)	$373 million	Pittsburgh, PA
8	VolkswagenStiftung	501(c)(3)	$358 million	Germany,
9	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	501(c)(3)	$200 million	Flint, MI
10	John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation	501(c)(3)	$716 million	Chicago, IL
11	William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	501(c)(3)	$317 million	Menlo Park, CA
12	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	501(c)(3)	$665 million	Princeton, NJ
13	Simons Foundation	501(c)(3)	$507 million	New York, NY
14	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation	501(c)(3)	$428 million	New York, NY
15	William N Pennington Foundation	501(c)(3)	$312 million	Reno, NV
16	Alsam Foundation	501(c)(3)	$208 million	Chicago, IL
17	Santa Barbara Foundation	501(c)(3)	$193 million	Santa Barbara, CA
18	The Colorado Health Foundation	501(c)(3)	$358 million	Denver, CO
19	The California Endowment	501(c)(3)	$256 million	Los Angeles, CA
20	David and Lucile Packard Foundation	501(c)(3)	$355 million	Los Altos, CA
21	Kresge Foundation	501(c)(3)	$275 million	Troy, MI
22	The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International	501(c)(3)	$412 million	Evanston, IL
23	Texas A&M Foundation	501(c)(3)	$292 million	College Station, TX
24	Indiana University Foundation	501(c)(3)	$304 million	Bloomington, IN
25	University of Nebraska Foundation	501(c)(3)	$281 million	Lincoln, NE

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