The James Joseph Ford Foundation

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.

Grant history

All 38 reported grants, largest first.

• $8,000

  Tutwiler Community Education Center · Tutwiler, MS · 2022

  To save all healthy and treatable animals in the las vegas valley

• $5,000

  Capability Health & Human Services · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To serve families and children who have been diagnosed with developmental delays and other disorders as well as families and adults with physical and intellectual limitations.

• $5,000

  Children'S Lifesaving Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024

  To transform the lives of underserved, bipoc youth and houseless families living in shelters and transitional housing by providing outdoor education as well as other educational assitance and scholarships.

• $5,000

  Heaven Can Wait Animal Society · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To eliminate the senseless, unnecessary euthaniasia of cats and dogs.

• $5,000

  Childrens Lifesaving Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

  To transform the lives of underserved, bipoc youth and houseless families living in shelters and transitional housing by providing outdoor education as well as other educational assitance and scholarships.

• $5,000

  Nevada Blind Children'S Foundation · Henderson, NV · 2022

  To provide extended educational curriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities, and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired.

• $5,000

  Reading in Motion · Chicago, IL · 2022

  To support students reading at grade level or above during their early years

• $3,500

  The Dr Shirley Linzy Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

  To educate, promote, and develop the musical talent of students.

• $3,500

  The Dr Shirley Linzy Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2022

  To educate, promote, and develop the musical talent of students.

• $3,000

  Nspca · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To help people and pets by providing walk-in adoptions, low cost veterinary assistance, fostering pets and providing community support through the pet pantry.

• $2,500

  Elevate Your Game · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To lift urban students (through mentoring) to higher levels in the grades, attendance and maturity to empower them to be leaders.

• $2,500

  Foster Kinship · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To strengthen kinship caregivers' capacity to provide safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children.

• $2,500

  Jacobs Heart · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  To help improve the quality life for children with cancer and support their families in the challenges they face.

• $2,500

  Ocean'S Harbor House · Toms River, NJ · 2024

  To provide homeless teens and youth with a stable, safe, clean and healthy living enviromnent.

• $2,500

  Queens Academy · Queens, NY · 2024

  To foster community, acceptance, integrity, respect, accountability and perseverance in students so they can be responsible, driven and successful adults.

• $2,500

  Be a Mentor · Hayward, CA · 2023

  To strengthen mentors' capacity to help children and youth who come from challenging circumstances to develop the assets they need to create successful lives for themselves.

• $2,500

  Boys Town Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

  To ensure families have the support and skills they need to create and maintain a safe, stable environment for their children through services and classes.

• $2,500

  Foster Kinship · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

  To strengthen kinship caregivers' capacity to provide safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children.

• $2,500

  Jacob'S Heart Childrens · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  To help improve the quality life for children with cancer and support their families in the challenges they face.

• $2,500

  Project Hope Alliance · Costa Mesa, CA · 2023

  To support ending the cycle of homelessness by providing help in areas such as academics, social-emotional development, life skills, and basic needs for those from kindergarten to the age of 24.

• $2,500

  Reading in Motion · Chicago, IL · 2023

  To support students reading at grade level or above during their early years

• $2,500

  Tutwiler Community Education Center · Tutwiler, MS · 2023

  To save all healthy and treatable animals in the las vegas valley

• $2,500

  Foster Kinship · Las Vegas, NV · 2022

  To strengthen kinship caregivers' capacity to provide safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children.

• $2,000

  Bridge Builders Leadership Initiative · Pearl, MS · 2024

  To provide families the opportunity to grow and succeed with tuition-free after-school and summer programming.

• $2,000

  Living Grace Homes · Henderson, NV · 2024

  To provide a safe environment, programs and support for the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of homeless, pregnant and parenting young women.

• $1,500

  Genesis & Light Ctr · Jackson, MS · 2023

  To strengthen and uplift families as well as youth both physically and emotionally by offering encouragement, education, and edification as a way to encourage better futures than the lives they are accustomed to.

• $1,500

  Lead With Horses · Reno, NV · 2023

  To help improve the social, emotional, and behavioral development of children through quality equine assisted therapeutic and educational programs.

• $1,100

  Liberty Union Rugby Club · Brentwood, CA · 2022

  We encourage the development of our players through the sport's five core values of integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline, and respect.

• $1,000

  Gentlemen By Choice · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To empower tomorrow's innovators by fostering youth growth, enhancing resilience, self-confidence and personal awareness.

• $1,000

  St Jude'S Ranch of Children · Boulder City, NV · 2024

  To serve the needs of abused and neglected children and young adults in southern nevada.

• $1,000

  Sweet Potato Comfort Pie · Golden Valley, MN · 2024

  To foster racial healing and grow beloved community.

• $1,000

  The Dr Shirley Linzy Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To educate, promote, and develop the musical talent of students.

• $1,000

  The Immigration Center for Women · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To provide affordable immigration services to underrepresented immigrants in nevada.

• $1,000

  Ymca of Hampton Road · Chesapeake, VA · 2024

  To provide a safe, family-oriented environment, and a gathering place for thousands of kids, families, seniors and individuals.

• $1,000

  April Parker Foundation · Long Beach, CA · 2023

  To empower and strengthen bipoc communities, veterans, and businesses by providing equitable access to resources and advocacy.

• $1,000

  Progressive Ed Resource Service · Carson, CA · 2023

  To provide laptops to students without computers, so each student can work at their own pace while allowing the teacher to work one-on-one with each student.

• $1,000

  The Animal Foundation · Las Vegas, NV · 2022

  To save all healthy and treatable animals in the las vegas valley

• $600

  Animal Foundation · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

  To help pets find and stay in loving homes with adoption, veterinary care, and essential resources.

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