Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-573-5000
Fax: 212-351-3677
Email: office-secretary@fordfoundation.org
Website: www.fordfound.org
Private non-operating foundation

Assets in 2007		$13,798,807,066
Grants Awarded in 2007		$617,071,969

EIN:13-1684331
Founded: 1936, operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since 1836 it has provided slightly more than $10 billion in grants and loans.
Original source of funding: The Ford Foundation's funds began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford. The Foundation no longer owns Ford Motor Company stock, and its diversified portfolio is managed to provide a permanent source of support.
Exempt since: September 1960
Files: Form 990PF

HARMS: Supports numerous anti-industry projects. Created the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970. Gave $10 million grant in 1998 to the Forest Stewardship Council to monopolize and dismantle global wood sales.

The Ford Foundation is often confused with the Ford Motor Company Fund. The two philanthropies are not related. They share no funds and no directors, officers or staff.

Ford Foundation
Officers, Directors, Trustees, Foundation Managers, 2007
Note that none of these people are members of the Ford family
or affiliated in any way with the Ford Motor Company

Name	Title	Compensation
Susan V Berresford	President and Trustee	$724,244
Linda Strumpf	V P & Chief Investment Officer	$1,035,841
Barron M Tenny	Exec VP Sec & Gen Counsel	$597,973
Kofi Appenteng	Trustee, effective	$7,000
Thurgood Marshall Jr	Trustee, effective	$25,000
Clifford Hudson	Trustee	$25,000
Richard Moe	Trustee	$27,000
Kathryn Fuller	Trustee and Chairman	$27,000
Juliet V Garcia	Trustee	$25,000
Pablo Farias	VP of Assets	$336,548
Alison Bemstein	V P of Know, Creat & Freedom	$355,468
Afsaneh M Beschloss	Trustee	$22,000
Marta Lourdes Tellado	V P of Communications	$336,963
David Chiel	Deputy V P Program Division	$227,127
Jacob Gayle	Deputy V P Program Division	$232,240
Carl Weisbrod	Trustee	$28,250
Nancy Feller	Assoc G C & Dir Legal Services	$341,245
Yolanda Kakabadse	Trustee	$30,000
Irene Hirano	Trustee	$23,000
Wilmot James	Trustee	$31,400
Mary McClymont	V P of Peace & S J, Eff	$267,615
Anke Ehrhardt	Trustee	$24,000
W Richard West	Trustee	$31,700
Nicholas Gabnel	Treasurer and Dir Finl Services	$340,453
Yolanda Moses	Trustee	$26,850

THE FORD FOUNDATION
STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION
(assets only, in thousands)

As of September 30,

	2008	2007
ASSETS

Investments, at fair-value	$10,756,535	$13,293,577
Accrued interest and dividends receivable	31,962	35,200
Pending securities, net	81,757	165,296
	$10,870,254	$13,494,073

Cash	1,646	1,047
Federal excise tax receivable	3,900	2,605
Other receivables and assets	13,490	14,813
Program-related investments, net of allowances for possible losses of $23,671 ($23,826 at September 30, 2007)	125,967	118,485
Fixed assets, net of accumulated depreciation of $91,338 ($87,531 at September 30, 2007)	29,871	28,708
Total assets (in thousands)	$11,045,128	$13,659,731

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