Funding search · The Ford Foundation · grants
The Ford Foundation: all 10,731 grants
Largest first · $2.35B across 2022–2024 · back to the overview
- $700,000
European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $700,000
For the Long Term · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $700,000
Global Dialogue · 2023
Core support for funders initiative for civil society (fics) for institutional development and to conduct activities to counter the securitization of civic space
- $700,000
Grassroots Power Project · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General support
- $700,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support for the asian american pacific islander civic engagement fund to build the capacity of local and state-based aapi civic engagement leadership and organization
- $700,000
Sundance Institute · Park City, UT · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $700,000
The African Women'S Development Fund · 2023
Core support for a regional initiative and campaign against sexual violence epidemic (case) in west africa
- $700,000
The Angela Borba Fund - a Resource for Women · 2023
Core support to create the black women alliance - all against violence program
- $700,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2023
Core support for the engine for art, democracy and justice project, a collaborative civic engagement initiative that advances art, science and scholarship
- $700,000
African Women'S Development Fund · 2022
Core support for a regional initiative and campaign against sexual violence epidemic (case) in west africa
- $700,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
Core support for californians for safety and justice to reduce california's over-reliance on incarceration, and for institutional strengthening
- $700,000
Angela Borba Fund - a Resource for Women · 2022
Core support to create the black women alliance - all against violence program
- $700,000
Fundacion Acceso · 2022
Core support to participate in the design and implementation of a regional resource hub to strengthen mission critical capacities of civil society organizations in mexico and central america.
- $700,000
Global Dialogue · 2022
Core support for funders initiative for civil society (fics) for institutional development and to conduct activities to counter the securitization of civic space
- $700,000
Hester Street Collaborative · New York, NY · 2022
Core support for an independent national network of low-income and public housing residents and advocates, movement leaders, and non-profit allies that focus on housing as critical social infrastructure
- $700,000
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · 2022
Core support to strengthen the research vertical of the centre for liberal education (cle) and core support for institutional strengthening for cle to pursue a new political economy initiative
- $700,000
National Gallery of Art · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the exhibition, afro-atlantic histories
- $700,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the tipping point fund, a donor collaborative vehicle to support the growth and practice of income investing
- $700,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the algorithmic justice league, which combines art and research to raise awareness about the social implications of artificial intelligence and empowers the most impacted communities to challenge bias i… read allCore support for the algorithmic justice league, which combines art and research to raise awareness about the social implications of artificial intelligence and empowers the most impacted communities to challenge bias in predictive and surveillance t less
- $700,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Core support for shorenstein's technology and social change project and core support for the public interest internet initiative to field-build across multiple sectors of internet research and advocacy such as digital i… read allCore support for shorenstein's technology and social change project and core support for the public interest internet initiative to field-build across multiple sectors of internet research and advocacy such as digital infrastructure and disinformatio less
- $700,000
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Core support for the just tech fellowship to advance justice & equity by transforming racial & gender power imbalances within the field of artificial intelligence; and advance interdisciplinary research at the intersect… read allCore support for the just tech fellowship to advance justice & equity by transforming racial & gender power imbalances within the field of artificial intelligence; and advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of technology & social just less
- $700,000
Sundance Institute · Park City, UT · 2022
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $700,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2022
Core support for the engine for art, democracy and justice project, a collaborative civic engagement initiative that advances art, science and scholarship
- $693,000
Instituto De Estudios Peruanos · 2023
General support
- $690,000
The Legal Agenda · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $687,500
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $687,500
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Core support for the national latinx theater initiative, a national effort to support latinx theater across the country and to provide latinx theater artists creative freedom
- $687,500
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $687,500
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Core support for the national latinx theater initiative, a national effort to support latinx theater across the country and to provide latinx theater artists creative freedom
- $687,000
Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening activities
- $686,500
Sahjeevan · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $683,000
The Engine Room · New York, NY · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $680,000
Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conse… read allTo ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conservation, and climate change goa less
- $675,000
Rainforest Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Core support for the global alliance of territorial communities for its global communications project to facilitate communication by forest peoples' networks in international climate change fora and strategically import… read allCore support for the global alliance of territorial communities for its global communications project to facilitate communication by forest peoples' networks in international climate change fora and strategically important regional events less
- $675,000
Economic Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $667,000
Jobs To Move America · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
- $667,000
Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement · 2024
General support
- $667,000
Advancement Project Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $667,000
Jobs To Move America · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
- $667,000
Advancement Project Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
- $666,879
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022
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
- $666,800
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
For the university consortium on afro-latin american studies: building networks of knowledge production with academic institutions, social movements, and practitioners involved in race justice agendas in latin america
- $666,600
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
For the university consortium on afro-latin american studies: building networks of knowledge production with academic institutions, social movements, and practitioners involved in race justice agendas in latin america
- $666,000
Advancement Project Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
- $666,000
Committee To Protect Journalists · New York, NY · 2022
General support
- $665,000
Forest Peoples Programme · 2022
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
- $662,500
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General support
- $662,500
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General support
- $660,000
Florida Immigrant Coalition · Miami, FL · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $660,000
Renstitute · Stamford, CT · 2023
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 districts in collaboration with end gbvf collective.
- $660,000
Transforming Power Fund · Detroit, MI · 2023
General support
- $658,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support for the asian american pacific islander civic engagement fund to build the capacity of local and state-based aapi civic engagement leadership and organization
- $655,000
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2022
Core support for the color congress initiative to strengthen the field of documentary organizations led by and serving communities of color in the u.s., through regranting and participatory grantmaking activities
- $654,211
University of the Witwatersrand · 2024
Core support for the southern centre for inequality studies to study and address inequality in the global south, and core support for its institutional strengthening
- $654,211
University of the Witwatersrand · 2023
Core support for the southern centre for inequality studies to study and address inequality in the global south, and core support for its institutional strengthening
- $654,211
University of the Witwatersrand · 2022
Core support for the southern centre for inequality studies to study and address inequality in the global south, and core support for its institutional strengthening
- $650,000
Federacao De Orgaos Para Assistencia Social E Educacional · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening including financial resilience, institutional protection and communications strategies
- $650,000
Global Witness Ltd · 2024
General support
- $650,000
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.
- $650,000
Proteus Fund · Waltham, MA · 2024
Core support for the prevention collaborative to reimagine evidence-based approaches to prevention of violence against women and girls across the global south and for project support for institutional strengthening of t… read allCore support for the prevention collaborative to reimagine evidence-based approaches to prevention of violence against women and girls across the global south and for project support for institutional strengthening of the prevention collaborative less
- $650,000
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York · Albany, NY · 2024
Core support for the statewide infrastructure strategies project
- $650,000
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2023
General support
- $650,000
International Media Support · 2023
Project support to reflect on the state and needs of global investigative journalism and core support to ims mena program
- $650,000
Renda Puhui Co Limited · 2023
To establish a national advisory board on impact investing and connect more stakeholders especially regulators and mainstream financial institutions to promote the development agenda of impact investing in china actively
- $650,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support for the criminal justice reform initiative to advance multi-sector, jurisdictional approaches to reduce the reliance on the criminal justice system to address social problems.
- $650,000
Ujima the National Center On Violence Against Women · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support to co-develop the us national action plan on gender based violence by centering the communities most impacted and ensuring community driven efforts to shape gbv strategies
- $650,000
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2022
General support
- $644,200
Forest Peoples Programme · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $642,879
Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
- $642,879
Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
- $640,000
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana · 2024
Core support for the institute of intercultural studies' peacebuilding activities, to develop a territorial agenda for rural and ethnic territories, and work with transitional justice mechanisms for victims' participati… read allCore support for the institute of intercultural studies' peacebuilding activities, to develop a territorial agenda for rural and ethnic territories, and work with transitional justice mechanisms for victims' participation in truth and memory proc less
- $640,000
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $636,266
Digital Society of Africa · 2023
General support
- $625,000
Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Core support to the racial equity in journalism fund, a donor collaborative to assist and strengthen people of color-led and -serving media institutions, particularly around civic news coverage
- $625,000
Miami City Ballet · Miami Beach, FL · 2023
General support
- $625,000
Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2022
Core support to present simone leighs work at the u.s. Pavilion at the 2022 venice biennale, a subsequent survey exhibition and loophole of retreat for black women artists organized by simone leigh.
- $625,000
Miami City Ballet · Miami Beach, FL · 2022
General support
- $620,477
American University of Beirut · 2022
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.
- $620,000
Empower-the Emerging Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Core support for the empowering her voice fund to to strengthen global inter-generational feminist movements through participatory approaches and leveraging new funding ?
- $620,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For the sage fund to deepen learning and seed funding for a regranting program on the intersections of natural resources and gender structural violence
- $615,569
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022
For the safety donor services project to address threats to organizations that are engaging in frontline social justice work.
- $615,000
B Team Headquarters · New York, NY · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $615,000
Harness Community · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
- $615,000
Arizona Board of Regents Acting for and On Behalf of the Univ of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023
To develop the digital archive for reclaiming the border narrative: storytelling and cultural power for migrant justice
- $615,000
Black Economic Alliance Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
- $615,000
International Service for Human Rights · 2023
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
- $615,000
Techcongress Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General support and project support for organizational strengthening including hiring new staff and increasing sustainability
- $615,000
Centro De Estudos Das Relacoes Do Trabalho E Da Desigualdade · 2022
General support and core support to improve the institutional resilience of the organization
- $615,000
Oil Change International · Washington, DC · 2022
General support and project support for institutional strengthening
- $612,087
Yayasan Roemah Inspirit · 2024
To develop a communications resource hub as an infrastructure to strengthen civil society organizations in indonesia
- $603,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $603,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2022
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $600,000
Action for Hope · 2024
General support
- $600,000
Africa Centre for Energy Policy · 2024
Core support to address the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the survival of civil society organizations and building resilience in the natural resources and climate change ecosystem in west africa
- $600,000
Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Foundation · Randolph, NJ · 2024
General support
- $600,000
Black Economic Alliance Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support and core support for institutional strengthening
- $600,000
Centro De Estudos Das Relacoes Do Trabalho E Da Desigualdade · 2024
General support and core support to improve the institutional resilience of the organization
- $600,000
Creatura Promotora Del Pensamiento Critico Sc · 2024
To coordinate the design and implementation of a resource hub to strengthen the mission-critical capacities of civil society organizations in mexico and central america
- $600,000
International Development Economics Associates · 2024
General support
- $600,000
International Women'S Media Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support

