UNDUE INFLUENCE

Ford Motor Company Fund


Undue Influence by Ron Arnold

Ford Motor Company Fund
P.O. Box 1899
The American Road

Dearborn, MI 48121
Phone: (888) 313-0102
Website: www.ford.com
Assets in 1999 $246,008,771.00
Grants Awarded in 1999 $97,789,429.00

Parent Company:
Ford Motor Company
Establishment Data: Incorporated in 1949 in MI.
Donor: Ford Motor Company
Foundation Type: Company Sponsored (CS)
Purpose and Activities: "Support for education, including matching gifts for colleges and universities and basic research grants, community funds and urban affairs, hospitals, and civic and cultural programs."
Financial Data (Fiscal Date: 99/12/31 )
Assets Amount: $246,008,771 AM
Contributions Received: $200,000,000
Expenditures: $98,756,243

Qualifying Distribution: $98,753,891
Total Giving: $97,789,429
Grants Amount: $54,080,836  Number of Grants: 1,400
Highest Grant: $2,101,911  Lowest Grant: $500
Average Grant: 1000-25000
Matching Gifts Amount: $3,666,444

Staff: 9

EIN:
381459376
Exempt since: 1949

HARMS: Funds environmentalists' anti-corporate projects.

CENTER OPINION: CEO Bill Ford is endangering his firm and other enterprises by his capitulation to anti-corporate environmental organizations. See the Center's web page on capitulation.


Ford Motor Company Fund is not affiliated with Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is a separate entity from Ford Motor Company. Ford Foundation owns no shares of Ford Motor Company stock, and no member of the Ford family or Ford Motor Company management is on Ford Foundation's Board of Directors.

Officers and Trustees

Vice President and Executive Director Sandy Ulsh    
President John Rintamaki   Group Vice President and Chief of Staff, Ford Motor Company
Treasurer Malcolm S. MacDonald    
Trustee W. Wayne Booker    
Trustee Alfred Ford    
Trustee Sheila Ford Hamp    
Trustee Vaughn Koshkarian    
Trustee Martin Zimmerman    

Photo Gallery of FMCF leaders:
John Rintamaki, President, Ford Motor Company Fund

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