The Ford Foundation was originally funded by bequests of Ford Motor Company stock from the estates of Henry and Edsel Ford. However, the foundation no longer invests in the automaker, and is unrelated to the Ford Motor Company Fund, which is company-run.
This foundation was established in 1955 by James Ford Bell (1879-1961), a leading figure in the American flour-milling industry and a founder of General Mills, Inc. (in 1928).
The Surfrider Foundation is an environmentalist group that has been around for more than three decades. What started as a group that advocated for easy access to beaches quickly became a nanny-state promoter seeking to ban any single-use plastic. In its articles of incorporation in 1984, the Surfrider Foundation said it was forming to “promote […]
The McIntosh Foundation began in 1949 with money from Josephine H. McIntosh, whose grandfather George Hamilton Hartford founded the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (later renamed A&P).
Leo Model was an investment broker and chairman of Bache, Model, Roland International. He was also a director of the Hartford Insurance Company Group, Dreyfus International Investment Fund M.V., and J. Rothschild International Investments S.A.
The Goldsmith Foundation was set up by members of the Goldsmith family, many of whom hold executive positions or seats on the board of the Ford Motor Company. This foundation, though, is wholly independent of Ford.
Film actor & director; trustee, Natural Resources Defense Council; Manager, the Redford Foundation
