Ford Foundation

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #333: Hoovering Up Henry Money, or How to Get a Ford Foundation Grant
We’ve covered “megaphone philanthropy”—the emphasis some left-wing activist groups and their multi-million or even billion-dollar funders place on street-protest imagery, often featuring people yelling through bullhorns—and the Ford Foundation, one…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 13, 2024

Foundation Watch
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Free Money Versus Free Enterprise
At the end of 1976, Henry Ford II, resigned from the Ford Foundation board of directors. In his resignation letter, he advised the foundation's board, “I'm just suggesting to the…
by Ken Braun on September 11, 2024

Foundation Watch
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Revolutions and Bullhorns
For nonprofits that really want the Ford funding spigot wide open, it is difficult to understate the importance of portraying supporters shouting through bullhorns, engaging in street demonstrations, and preaching…
by Ken Braun on September 11, 2024

Foundation Watch
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Crime and Democracy
Claiming that their preferred flavor of multi-whatever democracy has never existed and pledging to put it in place is clearly a winning message for aspiring grantees. Perversely, Ford’s philanthropoids also…
by Ken Braun on September 11, 2024

Foundation Watch
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Shaping the News
Ford grants are also showered upon those who help inject left-wing messages into media and culture. Since the beginning of 2023, those in charge of Henry’s money have shipped out…
by Ken Braun on September 11, 2024

Philanthropy
A Conversation with The Upheaval’s N. S. Lyons (Part 1 of 2)
At his great Substack newsletter, The Upheaval, and elsewhere, the pseudonymous N. S. Lyons’ wide-ranging, historically informed, and insightful writing examines that which has given rise to three simultaneous revolutions…
by Michael E. Hartmann, Daniel P. Schmidt on September 5, 2024

Philanthropy
A Conversation with The Upheaval’s N. S. Lyons (Part 2 of 2)
At his great Substack newsletter, The Upheaval, and elsewhere, the pseudonymous N. S. Lyons’ wide-ranging, historically informed, and insightful writing examines that which has given rise to three simultaneous revolutions…
by Michael E. Hartmann, Daniel P. Schmidt on September 5, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #329: How the Ford Foundation Took Over Storytelling
Hollywood and the entertainment industry are leftist; it has been since before actual Communists tried to infiltrate it in the 1930s and 1940s. But if you’ve noticed that entertainment has…
by Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on August 9, 2024

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by Jonathan Harsh on August 9, 2024

Foundation Watch
How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation places a heavy emphasis on supporting the documentary film industry. According to the foundation, its film-related grantmaking constitutes “one of the largest documentary funds in the world.”…
by Thomas Pack, Robert Stilson on July 31, 2024