The Ford Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $15.0M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the abundant futures fund (formerly, the new immigration fund), a national funder collaborative to engage new donors and significantly increase funding for immigration issues and the immigrant justice m…

• $12.7M

  Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the justice and mobility fund to accelerate economic mobility through criminal justice reforms for people with convictions and incarceration histories

• $8.3M

  Foundation for Detroit'S Future · Detroit, MI · 2024

  For the detroit institute of arts settlement project to expedite detroit's bankruptcy settlement, assist in honoring pension commitments and preserve the institutes collection for public benefit

• $5.0M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the collaborative for gender and reproductive equity

• $3.4M

  Henry Ford Health System · Detroit, MI · 2024

  General support

• $3.3M

  Drug Policy Alliance · New York, NY · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $3.2M

  American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  General support

• $3.0M

  The Global Fund for Women · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Core support for the launch of the black feminist fund, an unprecedented philanthropic initiative bridging black feminist resources to black feminist organizing around the world to strengthen their sustainability and re…

• $3.0M

  Equality Fund · 2024

  General support

• $2.5M

  Me Too International · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $2.5M

  Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Springfield, MA · 2024

  Core support for america's cultural treasures regional initiative in massachusetts, creative futures initiative: towards a just + equitable arts field, to support local arts and cultural activities

• $2.5M

  Ms Training Centre for Development Cooperation · 2024

  Core support for fight inequality alliance's work with national movements in over 40 countries across asia, africa, europe and latin america and the caribbean that are connected globally

• $2.4M

  Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Winstonsalem, NC · 2024

  For the deep south/emerging social justice infrastructure strategic grantmaking program

• $2.3M

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the four freedoms fund to strengthen the capacity of the immigrant justice movement to ensure all immigrants, regardless of status, have dignity, power to shape change, and agency to determine their lif…

• $2.3M

  Upturn · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $2.2M

  Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $2.1M

  Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Core support for the sister funds collective care program to build sustainable and scalable regional and global infrastructures that support the resilience, wellbeing, and safety of women and lbtqi+ defenders and their …

• $2.1M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the administration of the public interest technology infrastructure fund, to continue cross-foundation strategic collaboration and grantmaking to strengthen the field of public interest technology

• $2.0M

  American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  General support

• $2.0M

  Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the center for journalism and democracy to help strengthen americas democracy by training and supporting generations of black journalists in the field of investigative journalism

• $2.0M

  Yayasan Solidaritas Dana Nusantara · 2024

  For a direct funding mechanism to support indigenous peoples and local communities' initiatives in protecting and managing their territories, their environment and their agrarian resources, and for endowment support

• $2.0M

  United States Artists · Chicago, IL · 2024

  General support

• $2.0M

  Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024

  For the climate media collaborative for economic justice and community rights to leverage strategic communications and campaigns capacity

• $1.8M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support to implement governance, management, strategies, grantmaking, and learning for the global network for social justice and digital resilience

• $1.8M

  Movement Alliance Project · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.8M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the pop culture collaborative, a donor collaborative and learning community transforming narratives about black and indigenous peoples, people of color, immigrants, refugees, and muslims; and core suppo…

• $1.8M

  Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.7M

  Center for Law and Social Policy · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.7M

  Way To Rise · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the valiente fund to generate and organize donors, build year-round civic engagement programs focused on people of color, women, and young people, and strengthen state social justice infrastructure

• $1.7M

  Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

  Core support for the cdo fund for community development organizations that engage in economic and community development, organizing, resident engagement, and social service projects that empower detroiters

• $1.7M

  American University of Beirut · 2024

  To support the regionalization of the non-governmental organizations initiative (ngoi) and the set up of an institutional strengthening and capacity building program for civil society in the mena region.

• $1.6M

  Fund for Global Human Rights · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.6M

  Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2024

  General support

• $1.6M

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.6M

  United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.6M

  State Innovation Exchange · Madison, WI · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.5M

  Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.5M

  Clooney Foundation for Justice · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General support

• $1.5M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the administration of the public interest technology infrastructure fund, to continue cross-foundation strategic collaboration and grantmaking to strengthen the field of public interest technology

• $1.5M

  Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the heartland fund

• $1.5M

  The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2024

  General support

• $1.5M

  Ultraviolet Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.5M

  The African American Policy Forum · New York, NY · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.5M

  National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.4M

  Corporacion Agencia Afrocolombiana Hileros · 2024

  General support and core support for the institutional strengthening of the black communities process (pcn)

• $1.4M

  Mozilla Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the ford-mozilla fellowship program in the global south to strengthen organizations in the global south by layering technology strategies into their work through a fellowship program for public interest technologists

• $1.4M

  Neighborhood Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Core support grant for lift to ensure the equitable implementation of federal industrial policy investments

• $1.4M

  National Women'S Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.3M

  Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024

  Core support for the center for innovation in worker organization to promote strong workers and community-based organizations to shift the balance of power towards greater economic and social equality

• $1.3M

  Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024

  Core support to create a global program, partnering with global south scholars and movements, to reshape economic ideas globally, towards a post-neoliberal paradigm by shifting narratives, organizing convenings and buil…

• $1.3M

  New America Foundation Dba New America · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the global polity program to catalyze more equitable multilateral processes and solutions to global problems

• $1.3M

  Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening of the asian american justice affiliation

• $1.3M

  Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa Npc · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.3M

  United for Respect Education Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.3M

  Yayasan Pundi Asa Manusia · 2024

  To support the development of an endowment fund to strengthen human rights organizations and protect civic rights in indonesia

• $1.3M

  National Women'S Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support

• $1.3M

  The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture · San Antonio, TX · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.3M

  Institute for Local Self-Reliance · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the athena coalition to improve anti-monopoly protections, build the power of workers and improve working conditions.

• $1.3M

  Poise Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Core support for seed funding for pittsburgh's cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

• $1.3M

  Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.3M

  Renstitute · Stamford, CT · 2024

  Core support to grow and amplify localization of the national strategic plan on gender-based violence and femicide through scaling the use of 100-day challenges across municipalities in collaboration with end gender-bas…

• $1.2M

  National Disability Rights Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.2M

  The Journalism Development Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.2M

  National Gallery of Art · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the diverse acquisition fund to acquire works by artists of diverse backgrounds

• $1.2M

  Southern Africa Trust · 2024

  General support and project support for the resilience of extractives, climate & environmental justice sector, and for grantmaking

• $1.2M

  The American University in Cairo · 2024

  Core support for the school of global affairs and public policy program voices from the middle east and north africa to research alternative development paradigms, and core support for its institutional strengthening

• $1.2M

  People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support

• $1.1M

  Free Press · Northampton, MA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Center for Democracy and Technology · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Astraea Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for grantmaking, capacity building, and other work in the americas, the caribbean, africa, europe, central asia, oceania, and parts of southeast asia, and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Ultraviolet Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Fountain House · New York, NY · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for the state infrastructure fund to engage historically-underrepresented voters in the democratic process and protect their right to vote

• $1.1M

  International Center for Not-for-Profit Law · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.1M

  Colorofchange Org Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General support

• $1.1M

  Portland Art Museum · Portland, OR · 2024

  Core support for us pavilion exhibition of artist jeffrey gibson (choctow-cherokee) at the 60th venice biennale.

• $1.1M

  Universidad De Los Andes · 2024

  Core support for the consortium to reimagine the economy and economics to develop initiatives to reimagine the economy and economics in la from a global south perspective, and for core support for institutional strength…

• $1.1M

  Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

  Core support for elevating cdo fund to provide support for a cohort of grassroots development organizations that engage in economic and community development, organizing, resident engagement, and social service projects…

• $1.1M

  Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the decolonizing wealth project to disrupt existing systems of moving and controlling capital through education, radical reparative giving, and narrative change

• $1.0M

  National Employment Law Project · New York, NY · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  International Trade Union Confederation · 2024

  To promote equal and equitable participation of women and equity seeking groups in leadership, and in economic, social, civic and cultural life

• $1.0M

  Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd · New York, NY · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  Proteus Fund · Waltham, MA · 2024

  Core support for the rise together fund to support black, african, arab, middle eastern, muslim, and south asian (bamemsa) movements to build a just, inclusive, and multiracial democracy in the u.s. And project support …

• $1.0M

  Alliance for Justice · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  National Asian Pacific American Women'S Forum · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  Stichting Women Win · 2024

  Core support for the nebula fund to equip movements to counter anti-gender movements and project support for institutional strengthening of the nebula fund

• $1.0M

  American Association of People With Disabilities · Washington, DC · 2024

  General support and project support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support for collective future fund to create a future where all girls and women, cis, transgender, and gender non-conforming, can live with safety and dignity, and project support for institutional strengthening of…

• $1.0M

  Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  Core support for the resilient democracy hub (rdh) to strengthen organizations in states

• $1.0M

  Fondation Connaissance Et Liberte · 2024

  Core support for the humanitarian assistance program in haiti to support rural communities, farmers associations, and small agro-businesses

• $1.0M

  Iff · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Core support for the chicagos cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

• $1.0M

  New York Shakespeare Festival · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support to revitalize the delacorte theater in central park, home of free shakespeare in the park, by addressing critical infrastructure, accessibility, and theatrical needs.

• $1.0M

  Disability Rights Fund · Boston, MA · 2024

  General support and core support for institutional strengthening

• $1.0M

  Center for Curatorial Leadership · New York, NY · 2024

  Core support to maintain a long-term reserve for operations and the development of programmatic initiatives into the future and to be managed as a revolving fund

• $1.0M

  Iola'S Lyceum · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  General support

• $1.0M

  African Futures Institute Lbg · 2024

  General support

• $1.0M

  Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development · 2024

  Core support for the wise centre to generate new data in support of solutions to reduce inequalities by addressing structural and systemic drivers including racism and discrimination from multiple, intersecting perspect…

• $1.0M

  Restaurant Opportunities Center United · New York, NY · 2024

  General support