Funding search · EIN 461357649 · Columbus, OH

Ford Family Foundation

Name: Ford Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
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.

73
grants reported: $200,903
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $2,000
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

child development family healthcare legal christian metro cancer

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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.

Top recipients

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

Upper Arlington Education Foundation3 grants · $25,000
Access Justice3 grants · $18,000
Pickles Goup3 grants · $17,000
Beehive Alliance4 grants · $16,000
Bundled With Love3 grants · $14,316
Tko Parkinson'S3 grants · $13,500
Red Oak Family Foundation4 grants · $12,000
Oldham County Public Library3 grants · $12,000
Ford Family Philanthropic3 grants · $7,677
Baptist Health Foundation1 grant · $5,727

Giving over time

$32,180

2022

$41,493

2023

$57,414

2024

$69,816

2025

Grant history

All 73 reported grants, largest first.

$15,000
Upper Arlington Education Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2025
Ford family foundation grant
$10,000
Access Justice · Columbus, OH · 2025
Metro christian legal aid
$7,000
Pickles Goup · Winnetka, IL · 2025
Operating purpose
$7,000
Tko Parkinson'S · Louisville, KY · 2025
Operating purpose
$6,316
Bundled With Love · Columbus, OH · 2025
Operating purpose
$6,000
Upper Arlington Education Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2024
Comfort family fund and dugger family fund
$5,727
Baptist Health Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$5,162
Ford Family Philanthropic · Prospect, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$5,000
Beehive Alliance · Columbus, OH · 2025
Operating purpose
$5,000
Oldham County Public Library · Lagrange, KY · 2025
Operating purpose
$5,000
Red Oak Family Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2025
Operating purpose
$5,000
Access Justice · Columbus, OH · 2024
Metro christian legal aid
$5,000
Oldham County Public Library · Lagrange, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$5,000
Pickles Goup · Winnetka, IL · 2024
Operating purpose
$5,000
Beehive Alliance · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$5,000
Bundled With Love · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$5,000
Pickles Goup · Winnetka, IL · 2023
Operating purpose
$4,041
Pickles · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child healthcare
$4,000
Red Oak Family Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$4,000
Tko Parkinson'S · Louisville, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$4,000
Upper Arlington Education Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2023
Comfort family fund and dugger family fund
$3,000
Beehive Alliance · Columbus, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$3,000
Bundled With Love · Columbus, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$3,000
Access Justice · Columbus, OH · 2023
Metro christian legal aid
$3,000
Richland County Foundation · Mansfield, OH · 2023
Mark ford scholarship fund
$3,000
Beehive Alliance · Delaware, OH · 2022
Pediatric mental healthcare
$3,000
Bundle With Love · Columbus, OH · 2022
Childhood development
$2,500
Pelotonia · Columbus, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$2,500
Tko Parkinson'S · Louisville, KY · 2023
Operating purpose
$2,500
Metro Christian Legal Aid · Louisville, KY · 2022
Legal aid
$2,500
Trf Sanctuary Thoroughbred · Prospect, KY · 2022
Child development
$2,381
Pelotonia · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$2,000
Barrington Elementary Pto · Upper Arlington, OH · 2025
Operating purpose
$2,000
Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve · Goshen, KY · 2025
Operating purpose
$2,000
Goshen Elementary Pto · Prospect, KY · 2025
Operating purpose
$2,000
Star House · Columbus, OH · 2025
Operating purpose
$2,000
A Kid Again · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$2,000
Oldham County Public Library · Lagrange, KY · 2023
Operating purpose
$2,000
Red Oak Family Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$2,000
Comfort Family Fund · West Des Moines, IA · 2022
Family support
$2,000
Dugger Family Fund · Columbus, OH · 2022
Family support
$2,000
Ford Family Philanthropic · Prospect, KY · 2022
Child development
$2,000
Oldham County Library · La Grange, KY · 2022
Child development
$1,500
Barrington Elementary · Upper Arlington, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$1,500
Make a Wish · Louisville, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$1,500
Ronald McDonald House · Louisville, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$1,500
Seeds of Caring · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$1,500
Seeds of Caring · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child healthcare
$1,500
Whlouisville Inc - Tko Parkinsons · Louisville, KY · 2022
Child healthcare
$1,000
Columbus Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2025
Gifts of kindness
$1,000
Fanklin Park Conservatory · Columbus, OH · 2024
Operating purpose
$1,000
Goshen Elementary Pto · Prospect, KY · 2024
Operating purpose
$1,000
Barrington Elementary · Upper Arlington, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$1,000
Families Flourish · Bexley, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$1,000
Refuge for Women · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$1,000
Southeast Christian Church · Louisville, KY · 2023
Mission to puerto rico - greens
$1,000
Camberwell Gfeif Sanctuary · Bedford, KY · 2022
Child counseling
$1,000
March Fourth · Winnetka, IL · 2022
Child development
$1,000
Red Oak Family Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child development
$1,000
Santas Silent Helpers · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child development
$525
Freedom Service Dogs · Englewood, CO · 2024
Operating purpose
$517
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention · New York, NY · 2023
Operating purpose
$515
Ford Family Philanthropic · Prospect, KY · 2023
Operating purpose
$500
Upper Arlington Community Foundation · Upper Arlington, OH · 2025
Dale hartney memorial fund
$500
Cancer Free Kids · Loveland, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$500
Columbus Zoo · Powell, OH · 2023
Operating purpose
$500
Cancer Free Kids · Loveland, OH · 2022
Childhood cancer research
$500
Goshen Elementary · Prospect, KY · 2022
Child development
$500
Pelatonia · Columbus, OH · 2022
Cancer research
$303
Whlouisville Inc - Se Back To Sch · Louisville, KY · 2022
Child healthcare
$200
Barrington Elementary · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child development
$136
A Kid Again · Columbus, OH · 2022
Child development
$80
This Must Be the Place · Columbus, OH · 2023
Operating purpose

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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.