Funding search · The Ford Foundation · grants

The Ford Foundation: all 10,731 grants

Largest first · $2.35B across 2022–2024 · back to the overview

$300,000
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Core support for the human rights institute's human rights resilience project to build resilient social justice movements through peer-to-peer support
$300,000
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations · 2022
?for the ?second global forum against racism and discrimination to hold thematic panels and other events addressing racism and discrimination through an intersectional approach in the context of post-covid-19 recovery
$300,000
Universite Catholique De Louvain · 2022
Core support for the united nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty to advance rights and protections of working people.
$300,000
University of Detroit Mercy · Detroit, MI · 2022
Core support for its school of architecture's detroit collaborative design center to create sustainable neighborhood spaces for detroit residents
$300,000
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders - Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$300,000
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the defending land and environmental defenders coalition to convene human rights, environmental, and land rights stakeholders to collaborate to scale up prevention and protection efforts for land and en… read allCore support for the defending land and environmental defenders coalition to convene human rights, environmental, and land rights stakeholders to collaborate to scale up prevention and protection efforts for land and environmental defenders less
$300,000
Yayasan System Dynamic Center · 2022
To develop the governments sustainable and equitable low carbon development initiative strategy and its implementation in three provinces in indonesia
$299,402
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Core support for actionable intelligence for social policy (aisp), an initiative of the school of social policy and practice at the university of pennsylvania, for their equity in practice learning collaborative data eq… read allCore support for actionable intelligence for social policy (aisp), an initiative of the school of social policy and practice at the university of pennsylvania, for their equity in practice learning collaborative data equity technical assistance work less
$298,000
Documenta Analisis Y Accion Para La Justicia Social Ac · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
$298,000
Documenta Analisis Y Accion Para La Justicia Social Ac · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening.
$297,000
Empower-the Emerging Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Core support for the empowering her voice fund to strengthen global inter-generational feminist movements through participatory approaches and leveraging new funding.
$296,386
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing · 2023
Core support for homenet international, a global network of home-based workers advancing a strong, united and representative voice on global platforms to advocate for a just livelihood with governments and employers
$295,000
Centre for Social Sciences Research & Action · 2024
General support and project support to build institutional capacity as a leading regional center
$295,000
Colorofchange Org Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
One-time core support for institutional transition planning
$295,000
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
Core support for the surveillance resistance lab procurement project.
$295,000
Cooperaccion · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
$293,994
Foundation for Ecological Security · 2022
For grantmaking and technical assistance to enable civil society organizations to work with the government to ensure living incomes for farmers by effectively implementing the mgnrega in rajasthan, and mitigating covid … read allFor grantmaking and technical assistance to enable civil society organizations to work with the government to ensure living incomes for farmers by effectively implementing the mgnrega in rajasthan, and mitigating covid impact on farmers less
$292,990
Organization of American States · Washington, DC · 2024
To strengthen the capacities of the inter-american commission on human rights to address the human rights situation in the region applying innovative approaches and mechanisms, as well as institutional improvements in t… read allTo strengthen the capacities of the inter-american commission on human rights to address the human rights situation in the region applying innovative approaches and mechanisms, as well as institutional improvements in the work environment less
$290,000
Albertine Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$290,000
Icesi University · 2024
Core support for the center of afrodiasporic studies to strengthen its institutional capacity and to continue developing the ethnic and gender equity fund with grassroots organizations for peacebuilding
$290,000
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2024
Core support to advance effective violence reduction strategies at the state and local jurisdictional levels
$290,000
Face Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$290,000
International Food Policy Research Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To promote higher esg standards for chinas aid and investment in food and related industries and for knowledge network-building for the global south by collaborating with the chinese academy of agricultural sciences
$290,000
Jews United for Justice · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support for the collaborative for jewish organizing to organize in 19-plus states to work in partnership and in solidarity for social change
$290,000
University of the Witwatersrand · 2023
Core support for the centre for journalism's africa-china reporting project to generate and share knowledge about china's engagements with african countries through media training, facilitation, reporting and convenings
$290,000
Vision Into Arts Presents · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Core support for sensorium ex, a multi-sensory opera, a narrative unfolding at the intersections of disability and artificial intelligence
$289,480
National Council of Applied Economic Research · 2024
Core support to establish a center for gender and the macroeconomy to inform interventions that can support indias gender parity aspirations
$288,000
Fundacion Paz Y Reconciliacion · 2023
Core support for strengthening its institutional capacity and the consolidation of odevida as a strategy to raise the political costs and accountability of the attacks of social leaders in the andean region
$287,500
American Jewish Committee · New York, NY · 2024
Core support for the muslim-jewish advisory council, created to pursue interfaith and trust-building; and for the atlanta black-jewish teen initiative
$287,500
University of the Witwatersrand · 2022
Core support for the centre on african philanthropy and social investment to consolidate its teaching, training, research and the promotion of philanthropy in africa
$286,591
Media Legal Defence Initiative · 2022
General support
$286,338
Global Fund for Community Foundations · 2022
Core support to work with the revitalizing rainfed agriculture network to reduce risks and improve livelihoods for vulnerable agricultural communities in rainfed areas in india
$285,735
Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Giz) Gmbh · 2023
Project support to giz to implement southern african private sector research and collaboration on gbv with the sadc gender unit
$285,000
Katal Center for Health Equity and Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$285,000
Institute for Integrated Transitions · 2023
Core support for interdisciplinary research, actor mapping, structured convenings, and experiential learning exercises to generate new understandings of societal polarization that inform the philanthropic sector and oth… read allCore support for interdisciplinary research, actor mapping, structured convenings, and experiential learning exercises to generate new understandings of societal polarization that inform the philanthropic sector and other stakeholders less
$285,000
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
For discrit incarcerated: exploring the demographics and trajectories of incarcerated youth to better understand the trajectories of students in youth prisons to disrupt racialized, gendered, and disabled inequities
$285,000
Women Enabled International · Washington, DC · 2022
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
$284,000
Beijing Normal University · 2023
For the academy of china income distribution studies to conduct chinese household income project surveys for research and policy advocacy on income distribution and poverty in china
$283,513
Tax Justice Network Africa Limited · 2022
Core support for institutional strengthening
$283,500
Humentum · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the institutional health and strengthening for the social justice sector in southern africa in response to the intersecting crises created by the covid-19 pandemic
$283,334
Im-Defensoras · 2023
Core support to protect women's human rights defenders in mexico and central america and to integrate a gender perspective to the protection of social justice leaders
$283,000
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre US Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$282,500
Women With a Vision · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General support
$281,631
Yayasan Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria · 2022
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
$281,190
Cape Town Community Television Collective · 2022
Core support for a community based television and online series exploring the challenges around state and society responses to gender-based violence in south africa
$280,000
Coordenacao Das Organizacoes Indigenas Da Amazonia Brasileira · 2023
General support
$280,000
Florida Policy Institute · Orlando, FL · 2023
General support
$280,000
Center of Security and Citizenship Studies - Cesec · 2022
To foster the network of public security observatories in five states and for creating two other observatories in the northeast region
$280,000
Foundation for Civil Society · 2022
Core support for the resource hub: strengthening the ecosystem for csos' financial resilience
$279,744
Yayasan Roemah Inspirit · 2023
To develop a communications resource hub as an infrastructure to strengthen civil society organizations in indonesia
$279,000
Hong Kong Baptist University · 2022
For the department of economics to collect information and undertake studies on china's economic system and development finance and to share information and knowledge with global south stakeholders
$278,000
Indigenous Peoples Rights International · 2023
To maximize decision-making spaces and intensify awareness and global actions to address the criminalization of indigenous peoples' social justice leaders and their communities
$277,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To hold colloquiums between chinese and u.s. Scholars on global governance issues around industrial policy for energy transition, international aid and debt, development standards and inclusiveness of international orga… read allTo hold colloquiums between chinese and u.s. Scholars on global governance issues around industrial policy for energy transition, international aid and debt, development standards and inclusiveness of international organizations less
$276,602
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation · 2024
Core support for organizational development for the social justice sector in southern africa in response to the intersecting crises created by the covid-19 pandemic.
$276,602
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation · 2022
Core support for organizational development for the social justice sector in southern africa in response to the intersecting crises created by the covid-19 pandemic.
$276,000
Metropolitan Group Llc · Portland, OR · 2022
To provide technical assistance on strategic communications to organizations in mexico and central america as part of the collaborative funding initiative for a resource hub to strengthen the mission critical capacities… read allTo provide technical assistance on strategic communications to organizations in mexico and central america as part of the collaborative funding initiative for a resource hub to strengthen the mission critical capacities of organizations less
$275,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$275,000
American Immigration Council · Washington, DC · 2024
General support and core support for the center for inclusion and belonging to create a nation of neighbors and inclusive communities
$275,000
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (Arrow) · 2024
Core support for strengthening civil society participation and centering young feminist voices in the beijing+30 anniversary review and related processes
$275,000
Aspiration · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Core support for ai now institute/cadence project committee's research on diagnosing the harms of unaccountable and concentrated power within the tech industry and providing actionable, scalable policy recommendations
$275,000
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$275,000
Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024
Core support for united today, stronger tomorrow to identify issues affecting communities as a result of covid, strengthen organizing work in impacted communities, and inform national advocacy efforts connected to the h… read allCore support for united today, stronger tomorrow to identify issues affecting communities as a result of covid, strengthen organizing work in impacted communities, and inform national advocacy efforts connected to the health and economic crises. less
$275,000
Center for Political Accountability · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$275,000
China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development · 2024
For positive us-china engagement via the kuliang us-china youth festival to foster connections and promote mutual understanding
$275,000
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024
Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days
$275,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For collective courage, a network of black cooperatives seeking to support the strengthening of these cooperatives and greater civic engagement of their members
$275,000
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024
Core support for human rights funders network (hrfn), toward open philanthropy: advancing collaboration, action, and justice in human rights philanthropy
$275,000
Peninsula School of Art · Fish Creek, WI · 2024
General support
$275,000
San Francisco Study Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Core support for ethnic media services, a national media initiative to enhance local reporting and empower news organizations that serve minority communities
$275,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Core support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and s… read allCore support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and safeguard development defenders less
$275,000
Sonke Gender Justice Network · 2024
General support
$275,000
The 19th News · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$275,000
The New York Women'S Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Core support for a disability community of practice to engage women's foundations.
$275,000
Women'S Media Center · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$275,000
Aliansi Investasi Berdampak Indonesia · 2023
To conduct research and education on impact investing opportunities in indonesia
$275,000
American Immigration Council · Washington, DC · 2023
General support and core support for the center for inclusion and belonging to create a nation of neighbors and inclusive communities
$275,000
Center for Democracy and Technology · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support to launch a new program on the intersection of worker justice and tech policy at center for democracy & technology, a preeminent tech policy think tank
$275,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
For the detroit journalism engagement funds grantmaking to strengthen journalism on detroit's equitable recovery and for the new michigan media consortium of newspapers
$275,000
Creo Family Office Syndicate · New York, NY · 2023
Core support for its data platform to provide a trusted, aggregated source for global, climate-related investment information and analysis
$275,000
Freedom of the Press Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$275,000
Mountain State Spotlight · Charleston, WV · 2023
General support
$275,000
National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2023
General support
$275,000
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days
$275,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
Core support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and s… read allCore support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and safeguard development defenders less
$275,000
The 19th News · Austin, TX · 2023
General support
$275,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
Core support for community tech ny to collaborate with local organizations in new york city and the united states to plan and implement community-owned wireless infrastructure grounded in the principles of access, parti… read allCore support for community tech ny to collaborate with local organizations in new york city and the united states to plan and implement community-owned wireless infrastructure grounded in the principles of access, participation, and common ownership less
$275,000
Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Core support for the forge: organizing strategy and practice, an online journal focused on documenting learning from community organizing past and present
$275,000
Criterion Institute · Haddam, CT · 2022
Core support for the financing program to develop strategies and tools to equip feminist movement actors to allow them to engage finance as a tool to address gender based violence
$275,000
Earthsight · 2022
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
$275,000
Families and Friends of Louisiana'S Incarcerated Children (Fflic) · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General support
$275,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2022
Core support for 2a forward to explore activating new gun-owning constituencies to join broader coalitions for social justice
$275,000
Freedom of the Press Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$275,000
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center · San Pablo, CA · 2022
General support
$275,000
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas · Dallas, TX · 2022
Core support for the mental health strategic impact initiative (s2i) to plan collective action democratized by relevant expertise (cadre), a program to train leaders with lived experience to engage in developing mental … read allCore support for the mental health strategic impact initiative (s2i) to plan collective action democratized by relevant expertise (cadre), a program to train leaders with lived experience to engage in developing mental health policies and programs less
$275,000
National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2022
General support
$275,000
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days
$275,000
New York Communities Organizing Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$275,000
Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2022
Core support for in the public interest to help community organizations, advocacy groups, public officials, researchers, and the general public understand the importance of public goods and the role of government to dem… read allCore support for in the public interest to help community organizations, advocacy groups, public officials, researchers, and the general public understand the importance of public goods and the role of government to democracy and equity less
$275,000
Rewire News Group · Bethesda, MD · 2022
General support and core support for disability coverage and writers with disabili
$275,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Core support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and s… read allCore support for the coalition for human rights in development for strategic communications, facilitation and coordination, bringing new voices to the work to strengthen development finance institutions' standards and safeguard development defenders less