Funding search · EIN 381459376 · Dearborn, MI

Ford Motor Company Fund

Name: Ford Motor Company Fund grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

949
grants reported: $160.0M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $40,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

mobility economic services better world community essential employee

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Food banks and basic needs in Ford plant communities
Skilled trades and technician training pipelines ("education for the future of work")
Disaster relief through national responders and employee-matched global giving
Transportation access to health, school, and jobs ("mobility")
Ford Community Centers with Detroit neighborhood service partners
Detroit museums, cultural institutions, and Ford family heritage sites

Typical grant

Median grant is $40,000 and the middle half runs $10,000 to $100,000, so most of the 949 grants are modest operating or program checks. The very large awards go to a small set of institutional partners: GlobalGiving at roughly $10M as a disaster and global pass-through, TechForce Foundation at $2.55M for technician scholarships, United Way for Southeastern Michigan at $2M, Governors Highway Safety Association at $1.7M, Gleaners at $1.39M. With 949 grants to 515 recipients over four years, repeat annual giving to the same anchors is the norm rather than the exception.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“ESSENTIAL SERVICES”
“EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK”
“MOBILITY”
“DISASTER RESPONSE”
“FORD COMMUNITY CENTERS”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame work as "mobility": transportation barriers to care, school, or employment, like Feonix, Ride for Ride, Wayne Health.
Tie workforce projects to skilled trades and technicians, echoing TechForce, SkillsUSA, SkillPointe, Kellogg Community College.
Ask $50,000 to $150,000 for a first request; six-figure-plus checks go to long-standing institutional partners.
Anchor the work in Detroit or another Ford footprint city: Memphis, Jackson TN, Louisville, Kansas City, Lorain OH.

Worth knowing: This is corporate giving tracking Ford's operating footprint: 440 of 949 grants went to Michigan, with Tennessee, DC, California, and Ohio next, and recipients cluster in plant towns. Nearly all money goes to direct-service nonprofits and intermediaries rather than universities or research institutes, and the largest awards repeat to the same handful of relationship partners each year.

87 grants matching “essential” · $19.3M

$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$1.4M
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$1.0M
Feonix - Mobility Rising · Lincoln, NE · 2025
Essential services
$310,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2025
Essential services
$300,000
Ride for Ride · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$250,000
Dare To Care · Louisville, KY · 2025
Essential services
$250,000
Ymca of Memphis & the Mid-South · Cordova, TN · 2025
Essential services
$245,000
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio · Lorain, OH · 2025
Essential services
$200,000
Wesley Community Services Organization · Cincinnati, OH · 2025
Essential services
$190,000
Cultivate Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2025
Essential services
$150,000
The Salvation Army · Southfield, MI · 2025
Essential services
$150,000
Eastern Market Corporation · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$150,000
Fair Food Network · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$147,000
Harvesters - the Community Food Network · Kansas City, MO · 2025
Essential services
$125,000
Pope Francis Center · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$120,000
Feedmore Western New York · Buffalo, NY · 2025
Essential services
$107,000
Metro United Way · Louisville, KY · 2025
Essential services
$105,000
The Children'S Center of Wayne County · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services · Dearborn, MI · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository · Chicago, IL · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Urban Growers Collective · Chicago, IL · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Detroit Police Athletic League · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank · Geneva, IL · 2025
Essential services
$100,000
South Michigan Food Bank · Battle Creek, MI · 2025
Essential services
$85,000
Ruth Ellis Center · Highland Park, MI · 2025
Essential services
$85,000
Accelerate4 Kids Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$75,000
Affirmations Community Center · Ferndale, MI · 2025
Essential services
$75,000
Lahc- Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities · Dearborn, MI · 2025
Essential services
$50,000
Cass Community Social Services · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$50,000
Community Kitchen · New York, NY · 2025
Essential services
$50,000
Massachusetts Avenue Project · Buffalo, NY · 2025
Essential services
$40,000
Arab American and Chaldean Council (Acc) · Troy, MI · 2025
Essential services
$40,000
Alternatives for Girls · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$25,000
Vista Maria · Dearborn Heights, MI · 2025
Essential services
$10,000
Meals On Wheels of Greenville · Greenville, SC · 2025
Essential services
$10,000
Samaritas · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$1.2M
Feonix - Mobility Rising · Lincoln, NE · 2024
Essential services
$300,000
Ride for Ride · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$220,000
Living Arts · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$150,000
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2024
Essential services
$125,000
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$100,100
Children'S Health Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Essential services
$100,000
Vision To Learn · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Essential services
$100,000
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services · Dearborn, MI · 2024
Essential services
$100,000
Wesley Community Services Organization · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Essential services
$100,000
Detroit Police Athletic League · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$100,000
Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$90,000
Accelerate4 Kids Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$75,000
United Way of Metro Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Essential services
$75,000
Shared Mobility · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Essential services
$50,000
Affirmations Community Center · Ferndale, MI · 2024
Essential services
$50,000
Ruth Ellis Center · Highland Park, MI · 2024
Essential services
$40,000
Alternatives for Girls · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$30,000
Detroit Impact · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$25,000
Arab American and Chaldean Council (Acc) · Troy, MI · 2024
Essential services
$25,000
Vista Maria · Dearborn Heights, MI · 2024
Essential services
$15,000
Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
Essential services
$250,000
The Salvation Army · Southfield, MI · 2023
Essential services
$125,000
Pope Francis Center · Detroit, MI · 2023
Essential services
$110,000
The Children'S Center of Wayne County · Detroit, MI · 2023
Essential services
$20,000
Council On Foundations · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Essential services
$12,200
Council of Michigan Foundations · Detroit, MI · 2023
Essential services
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$250,000
The Salvation Army · Southfield, MI · 2022
Essential services
$225,000
Pope Francis Center · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$160,000
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$60,000
Cass Community Social Services · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$50,000
Vista Maria · Dearborn Heights, MI · 2022
Essential services
$50,000
Capuchin Province of St Joseph · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$50,000
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$50,000
Fish & Loaves Community Food Pantry · Taylor, MI · 2022
Essential services
$50,000
Starfish Family Services · Inkster, MI · 2022
Essential services
$40,000
Detroit Area Agency On Aging · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$35,000
Detroit Public Schools Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$25,000
Entrepreneur Development Center of Sw Tennessee · Jackson, TN · 2022
Essential services
$25,000
Matrix Human Services · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$25,000
United Way of West Tennessee · Jackson, TN · 2022
Essential services
$25,000
Vibrant Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2022
Essential services
$25,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2022
Essential services
$20,000
Council On Foundations · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Essential services
$12,000
Council of Michigan Foundations · Grand Haven, MI · 2022
Essential services
$10,000
The Salvation Army · San Juan, PR · 2022
Essential services
$5,000
Northwest Harvest · Seattle, WA · 2022
Essential services
$5,000
The Salvation Army · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Essential services

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Globalgiving Foundation5 grants · $32.8M
Global Giving Foundation2 grants · $10.7M
Governors Highway Safety Association5 grants · $8.1M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan4 grants · $8.0M
Henry Ford Learning Institute4 grants · $6.1M
Henry Ford Health2 grants · $5.1M
Gleaners Community Food Bank7 grants · $5.0M
Techforce Foundation3 grants · $4.1M
The Detroit Institute of Arts4 grants · $2.7M
Feonix - Mobility Rising3 grants · $2.7M

Giving over time

$36.4M

2022

$38.9M

2023

$43.1M

2024

$41.6M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 949 grants.

$10.7M
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Global
$10.5M
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Global
$10.3M
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Global
$10.0M
Global Giving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Global
$5.0M
Henry Ford Health · Detroit, MI · 2024
Health
$2.5M
Techforce Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
Scholarship
$2.4M
Governors Highway Safety Association · Washington, DC · 2022
Mobility
$2.2M
Governors Highway Safety Association · Washington, DC · 2023
Smart mobility
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$2.0M
Michigan Central Center for Mobility and Society · Detroit, MI · 2023
Equity partnerships
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
Essential services
$2.0M
United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022
Essential services
$1.9M
Henry Ford Learning Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2023
Economic mobility
$1.9M
Henry Ford Learning Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2022
Economic mobility
$1.7M
Governors Highway Safety Association · Washington, DC · 2025
Other services
$1.7M
Governors Highway Safety Association · Washington, DC · 2024
Mobility
$1.4M
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$1.3M
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2023
Social mobility
$1.2M
Henry Ford Learning Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2024
Education for the future of work
$1.2M
Feonix - Mobility Rising · Lincoln, NE · 2024
Essential services
$1.2M
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2023
Ford resources and engagement centers
$1.1M
Henry Ford Learning Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2025
Education for the future of work
$1.0M
Feonix - Mobility Rising · Lincoln, NE · 2025
Essential services
$1.0M
Childrens Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
Other services
$1.0M
Techforce Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Scholarship
$995,377
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2024
Hunger
$934,938
Gleaners Community Food Bank · Detroit, MI · 2022
Ford resources and engagement centers
$836,591
United Way of West Tennessee · Jackson, TN · 2024
Ford community centers
$800,000
Kellogg Community College Foundation · Battle Creek, MI · 2025
Education for the future of work
$770,000
United Way of West Tennessee · Jackson, TN · 2025
Ford community centers
$700,000
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2022
Disaster relief
$683,300
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2025
Disaster response
$680,000
The Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2025
Museums and cultural inst.
$680,000
The Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2024
Museums and cultural inst.
$680,000
The Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2023
Arts
$680,000
The Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2022
Arts
$655,500
Global Giving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Other services
$655,500
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Program support
$650,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Disaster response
$632,500
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Program support
$615,000
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2024
Hunger
$600,000
Last Mile Education Fund · Lafayette, CO · 2025
Mobility
$600,000
The Edison Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2025
Museums and cultural inst.
$600,000
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2024
Disaster response
$550,000
Techforce Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Economic mobility
$522,000
Lulac National Educational Service Centers · Washington, DC · 2022
Economic mobility
$520,577
Detroit Public Schools Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2023
Ford resources and engagement centers
$515,000
Vision To Learn · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Mobility
$510,463
Enactus · Springfield, MO · 2022
Global
$500,000
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2025
Disaster response
$500,000
Habitat for Humanity International · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Disaster response
$500,000
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2025
Other services
$500,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Disaster response
$500,000
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
Other services
$500,000
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2023
Social mobility
$500,000
Feonix - Mobility Rising · Lincoln, NE · 2023
Smart mobility
$500,000
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2023
Social mobility
$500,000
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity partnerships
$500,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Social mobility
$500,000
The Edison Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2023
Economic mobility
$500,000
Vision To Learn · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Smart mobility
$500,000
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2022
Community development
$450,000
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino · Washington, DC · 2024
Museums and cultural
$450,000
The Edison Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2024
Museums and cultural inst.
$450,000
Heartland Forward · Bentonville, AR · 2023
Economic mobility
$450,000
Heartland Forward · Bentonville, AR · 2022
Economic mobility
$423,500
Ranken Technical College · Saint Louis, MO · 2022
Economic mobility
$400,125
Detroit Public Schools Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2022
Ford resources and engagement centers
$400,000
World Central Kitchen Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2025
Disaster response
$394,900
Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2025
Ford community centers
$390,000
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Economic mobility
$383,250
Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
Ford community centers
$375,000
Ser Metro-Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2025
Ford community centers
$375,000
Skills USA · Leesburg, VA · 2025
Education for the future of work
$375,000
Ser Metro-Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024
Ford community centers
$360,000
Southwest Tennessee Development District · Jackson, TN · 2024
Education for the future of work
$350,000
Henry Ford Estate · Dearborn, MI · 2025
Museums and cultural inst.
$350,000
The Skillpointe Foundation · Roswell, GA · 2025
Education for the future of work
$350,000
Henry Ford Estate · Dearborn, MI · 2024
Museums and cultural inst.
$350,000
Henry Ford Estate · Dearborn, MI · 2023
Arts
$350,000
The Edison Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2023
Arts
$350,000
Henry Ford Estate · Dearborn, MI · 2022
Arts
$350,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Disaster relief
$350,000
The Edison Institute · Dearborn, MI · 2022
Arts
$348,000
University Physician Group Dba Wayne Health · Detroit, MI · 2025
Mobility
$341,000
Accounting Aid Society · Detroit, MI · 2024
Ford community centers
$340,000
Accelerate 500 · Washington, DC · 2024
Entreprenuership
$323,500
Lulac National Educational Service Centers · Washington, DC · 2023
Economic mobility
$315,000
Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center · Detroit, MI · 2025
Ford community centers
$314,000
Lulac Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Economic mobility
$310,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2025
Essential services
$300,000
Accounting Aid Society · Detroit, MI · 2025
Ford community centers
$300,000
Breakthrough T1d (Formerly Jdrf) · New York, NY · 2025
Health
$300,000
Ride for Ride · Detroit, MI · 2025
Essential services
$300,000
Breakthrough T1d (Formerly Jdrf) · New York, NY · 2024
Health
$300,000
Ride for Ride · Detroit, MI · 2024
Essential services
$300,000
Jdrf International · New York, NY · 2023
Health
$300,000
Jdrf International · New York, NY · 2022
Health
$300,000
University Physician Group · Detroit, MI · 2022
Mobility

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.