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Ford Foundation

private foundation based in New York City
Organization nonprofit_organization Q1313036
Ford Foundation
Jim.henderson · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
nonprofit organization, collection, production company[5][6]
Official website
www.fordfoundation.org[12]
Legal form
foundation[13]
Native label
Ford Foundation[14]

Status and dates

Inception
1936[11]

Location

Headquarters location
Ford Foundation Building[8]
Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.750°, -73.971°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
New York City[3]as of 2026-10-21
where from?
Edition
20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
Bronze
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Transform
4ort-mint · ror:20261021 · version not recorded

Financials

Total assets
16.8B (10.3B–20.0B, n=10)[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
Total revenue
502.4M (453.8M–948.1M, n=10)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

People

Founder
Edsel Bryant Ford[7]
Chairperson
Darren Walker, Luis Ubiñas, Susan Berresford, Franklin A. Thomas, Heather K. Gerken[10]

Relations

Member of
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, Independent Sector[1][2]
More facts +2
Archives at
Rockefeller Archive Center[9]
Social media followers
7.2k (5.0k–204k, n=7)[35][36]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ford Foundation ar مؤسسة فورد cs Fordova nadace de Ford-Stiftung el Ίδρυμα Φορντ es Fundacion Ford es Fundación Ford fa بنیاد فورد fi Fordin säätiö fr Fondation Ford he קרן פורד id Ford foundation ja フォード財団 ko 포드재단 pt Fundação Ford ru Фонд Форда tr Ford Vakfı zh 福特基金會 zh 美國福特基金會 zh-hans 福特基金会
🔖 Identifiers · 51
ROR ID
02fvtx219
ISNI
0000000404426762
Legal Entity Identifier
54930013YZ3DULPNNT44
VIAF cluster ID
131336252
Library of Congress authority ID
n79066088
GND ID
1003922-3
OpenAlex ID
F4320306081as of 2026-10-11
where from?
Source
OpenAlex
Edition
20261011 · as of 2026-10-11
Bronze
not in the catalog
Transform
4ort-mint · openalex:20261011 · version not recorded
GRID ID
grid.453172.6
ACMI ID
creators/19816
BIBSYS ID
90292367
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11883630n
British Museum person or institution ID
176493
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12085384
Catalogue of the General State Archives ID
u-ford
CiNii Research ID
1140563741746002816
EIDR party ID
10.5237/A7F4-1C41
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Ford-Foundation
Facebook username
FordFoundation
Freebase ID
/m/0mzw0
Harper's tag
ford-foundation
IRS Employer Identification Number
13-1684331
IdRef ID
027767833
InfluenceWatch ID
non-profit/ford-foundation
Instagram username
fordfoundation
Internet Broadway Database person ID
109801
KISTI ID
K000360761
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
1003922-3
Kallías ID
KS00013471
LinkedIn company or organization ID
ford-foundation
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
1330432091
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA01982996
NE.se ID
ford-foundation
NL CR AUT ID
kn20050222007
NLA Trove people ID
824643
NLAI ID
182031
National Library of Brazil ID
000237889
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007261231505171
New York Times topic ID
organization/ford-foundation
Open Funder Registry funder ID
100000010
OpenStreetMap node ID
11761668239
PM20 folder ID
co/009088
PermID
4297975602
Quora topic ID
Ford-Foundation
Ringgold ID
5905
SHARE Catalogue author ID
128079
SNAC ARK ID
w63j72hg
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ford-foundation
Scilit organization ID
43949
X (Twitter) username
fordfoundation, FordFoundation
Yale LUX ID
group/cf208087-6305-4634-a025-d4174b01d684
YouTube channel ID
UCn67K92W09TII6YqXTKnB_w
📚 Sources · 3
  • OpenAlex as of 2026-10-11 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 Universal
  • ROR (Research Organization Registry) as of 2026-10-21 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 (ROR data) + CC BY 4.0 (GeoNames location data)
  • sunbiz as of 2026-09-26 · may be stale · 1 statement · us-fl-ch119 Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution and modification permitted for these records. Officer and registered-agent names in role public; natural-person addresses, personal IDs and private contacts internal-only. Basis us-fl-ch119.

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📜 Data licence
Source: OpenAlex (openalex.org), snapshot of 2026-09-23. CC0 1.0 Universal. CC0 1.0 Universal · OpenAlex
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OpenCorporates IDP1320
us_fl/820941 2026-09-26 sunbiz (us-fl-ch119) as of 2026-09-26may be stale
where from?
Source
sunbiz
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26 · newer edition 20261103 landed
Credit
Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution …
Bronze
manifest sha256 c214bcb6a7e7e9d6…
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4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution and modification permitted for these records. Officer and registered-agent names in role public; natural-person addresses, personal IDs and private contacts internal-only. Basis us-fl-ch119.
🔗 Connections
← Sponsor 8
Wikimedia Foundation, Let's Encrypt, Center for Public Integrity, Aspen Institute, Frontline, Albert Einstein Institution, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, South African History Online
Employees / affiliates 5
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Olufunke Baruwa, Nilcéia Freire, Werner Baer, Chidi Odinkalu
← Funder 5
International Commission of Jurists, openDemocracy, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Studio Museum in Harlem
← Affiliated with 4
Ghazlane Yasmine, Hicham Medromi, Kelsey Simmons, Ursina Kuhn
Instance of 3
nonprofit organization, production company, collection
Chairperson 1
Darren Walker
Country 1
United States
Founder 1
Edsel Bryant Ford
Headquarters location 1
Ford Foundation Building
Legal form 1
foundation
Notable alumni 1
Cindy Meston
← Affiliation 1
Darren Walker
← Commissioned by 1
Ford Foundation Building
← Model item 1
foundation
← Partnership with 1
Ashesi University
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The Ford Foundation is a nonprofit organization[1] that was founded in 1936[2]. It was established by Edsel Bryant Ford. The organization is headquartered in the Ford Foundation Building.

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

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Headquarters location New York low0.612 independent sources

evidence “Today, the Ford Foundation is headquartered in New York, runs 10 offices overseas, and funds more than 2,300 grantees.” fortune.com · read source

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'i
    Harper's tag → ford-foundation
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: ford-foundation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289930929|ford foundation (#289930929)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  2. 9w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap node ID → 11761668239
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap node ID: 11761668239, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/11761668239"
  3. 9w ago · GregMcCollum · 2026-08-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Canadiana Name Authority ID → ncf12085384
    National Library of Brazil ID → 000237889
    BIBSYS ID → 90292367
    Bibliothèque nationale de France ID → 11883630n
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ BIBSYS ID: 90292367, add P1015 claim: 90292367"
  4. 18w ago · KMart4Cite · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Member of → Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, Independent Sector
    Founder → Edsel Bryant Ford
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 40.749722222222225, 'lon': -73.97111111111111}
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Archives at: Rockefeller Archive Center"
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