Ford Foundation
fordfoundation.org Direct + LP
The Ford Foundation is a philanthropic organization that makes grants and mission-related investments to address inequality and promote social justice globally. It supports individuals, ideas, and institutions through various programs and fellowships.
Ford Foundation is an endowment headquartered in New York City, United States, founded in 1936. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, through fund commitments, in social justice, inequality, democracy and civic engagement.
“We invest in transformative ideas, individuals and institutions”
— Ford Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Endowment
- Stage
- Funds
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Invests in
- United States, Global South, Latin America, Africa, China, India, Indonesia, Middle East
- Sectors
- social justice, inequality, democracy, civic engagement, creativity and free expression, disability rights, future of work, gender racial and ethnic justice, global governance, mission investments, natural resources and climate justice, technology and society
- Founded
- 1936
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 50 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- HCAP Partners 2 shared companies: thegiin.org, missioninvestors.org
- ADV Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Ara Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- BC Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Berkshire Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Black Sea Fund 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cairngorm Capital 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cemex Ventures 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cleantech Bulgaria 1 shared company: wordpress.org
and 40 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ford Foundation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.fordfoundation.org/name, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/mission-investments/is_investor, layer, invests_in_geographies, type, stage_min, stage_max
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Record 1483 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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