A guide to the funder’s human rights and governance support
Henry Ford and his son Edsel created the Ford Foundation in 1936 to provide grants for research, education and charitable ends. The money came from the eponymous Ford Motor Company.
Initially the foundation owned 90 per cent of the non-voting shares in the car company. But it sold them, cutting its ties with what today is the world’s fifth largest car and truck manufacturer.
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