Organizational Background
A national leader in rural philanthropy, The Ford Family Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation benefiting communities in rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. In 1957, Kenneth W. Ford and Hallie E. Ford established a then-modest foundation to give back to the timber communities of southwest Oregon. It grew in size, scope, and geography to become The Ford Family Foundation in 1996, with its main office in Roseburg, Oregon. One of the three largest grantma